Fonts

[David Brown]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:42:44PM -0800, SJS wrote:

>I imagine that a postscript printer might be able to preserve
>"the default tabstop", but I suspect it's all done on the computer,
>not the printer, these days.

Postscript doesn't have tabs.  It's up to whatever is generating the
postscript for a given piece of text.  'enscript' for example has a setting
'-T' to set the tabstop.  The postscript it generates uses spaces to
position the text.  Again, however, the default is 8-spaces for each
tabstop.

Anything using variable width fonts will likely be positioning each word or
phrase directly.

Dave