Should scanner like tabs?

Bert Freudenberg bert at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De
Wed Apr 26 13:10:27 UTC 2000


On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Stewart MacLean wrote:

> Upon investigation I discovered that the scanner used returns a size
> of zero if there is a leading tab.
> 
> Is this the expected behaviour or bug?

You're using QuickPrint which is a specialized CharacterScanner - it can
only scan convert simple texts, but is very fast at this. Tabs are not
simple, so QuickPrint breaks out at the first tab char it finds.

  -Bert-





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