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Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Mike Stockman" <mstockman -at- gmail -dot- com>
> I did play around with this and, like you, failed to find any solution. But
> I think the problem is that even if you did find some invisible characters
> that would pass through to the PDF and look like indenting, any user copying
> the code would also get those hidden characters, and that would cause
> errors.
>
> The only semi-useful suggestion I can think of is to warn the users up front
> that copying from the PDFs will look bad but work fine, and provide a short
> discussion of pretty-printing utilities or features in common code editors
> that make the results more readable.
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