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| author | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2019-11-11 17:08:11 -0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-11-11 17:08:11 -0800 |
| commit | d3966372f5049eea56213b069fc4d70d8af9144c (patch) | |
| tree | ab5a11aa63cbfaa074a02efb6ed2d4f9f8d45a8b | |
| parent | 78399ccf90faf34c915f4ca76c57dd4024e0b91e (diff) | |
| download | pandoc-d3966372f5049eea56213b069fc4d70d8af9144c.tar.gz | |
Clarify MANUAL.txt on `--preserve-tabs`
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt index 3b7bb544c..9abebfbc8 100644 --- a/MANUAL.txt +++ b/MANUAL.txt @@ -634,9 +634,10 @@ header when requesting a document from a URL: `-p`, `--preserve-tabs` -: Preserve tabs instead of converting them to spaces (the default). - Note that this will only affect tabs in literal code spans and code - blocks; tabs in regular text will be treated as spaces. +: Preserve tabs instead of converting them to spaces. (By default, pandoc + converts tabs to spaces before parsing its input.) Note that this will + only affect tabs in literal code spans and code blocks. Tabs in regular + text are always treated as spaces. `--tab-stop=`*NUMBER* |