[NTG-context] poetry \startlines and tab

[Hans Hagen]

On 1/11/2022 3:01 AM, Youssef Cherem via ntg-context wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I needed to typeset some poetry and noticed that
> 
> \startlines[space=on]
> 
> Some line with tab % doesn't work, no spaces added
> 
> Some line with spaces %work
> 
> \stoplines
> 
> 
> Is there a way to make the "tab" render the space "as is"?
one can make the tab 'active' and have a meaning of say 2em but that's 
normally not what one does in tex ... btw, there are options for doing 
lines with odd/even indentation schemes

a tab at the start of a line (when it can be recognized as such) could 
work but in the middle ... doable but still somewhat hackery because it 
involves position tracking

Hans

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