Re: Programming Term?

Subject: Re: Programming Term?
From: Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Technical Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:26:06 -0400

"Indentation" or "Indent Style" is the term I've heard used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 5:20 PM, <Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com> wrote:

> One of the biggest drawbacks to being a self-taught programmer (and I'm
> being generous with the word "programmer" here) is that I am fairly weak
> when it comes to nomenclature.
>
> Is there a "universally" understood name for the type of indented
> formatting used to indicate the nesting hierarchy in a file full of
> marked-up text, such as XML? I'm trying to eliminate the three sentences I
> would need to describe what I'm talking about.
>
> -Brian H.
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