<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Peter Easthope wrote:<div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Is there a convention for indentation? Two blanks for each step? <br class="">Four blanks for each step? A tab character for each? Entirely <br class="">personal preference?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The only relevant convention that I'm aware of is the text "Programming Conventions" of BlackBox Component Framework, which states under 10 White Space: "<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">A new indentation level is realized by adding one further tabulator character". </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">This text mostly follows the source code formatting used by prof. Wirth.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">In my experience indentation with blanks only works well with monospaced fonts (e.g. Courier).</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The Oberon Wikibook and major Oberon textbooks preferably use a proportional font (e.g. Helvetica or Times) for Oberon source text.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Changing a tab character into a fixed number of blanks is done easily automatically, but changing a number of blanks in a text set in a proportional font into the right number of blanks or tab characters for any other font to get a nicely indented text must nearly always be done manually.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Therefore I would suggest to use one tab character for each indentation.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">--</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Hans Klaver</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>