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Subject: Re: unwanted auto-formatting on matlab central newsreader?
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:51:03 +0000 (UTC)
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"Andres" <rantore@werb.deNoRs> wrote in message <gfc8je$fhv$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> From one of my previous posts I suspect that the matlabcentral newsreader does some unwanted auto-formatting in addition to the known 'hiding empty lines' problem: multiple spaces were contracted to a single one. Such an auto-formatting can be quite annoying if you post code...
> 
> 
> Here are some test lines (copied from Notepad):
> numel('    ')  % 4 spaces
> numel('   ')  % 3 spaces
> numel('  ')  % 2 spaces
> numel(' ')  % 1 space
> 
> 
> Please ignore this if the right amount of space characters shows up.


OK, it's a problem of the matlab central newsreader...

Compare
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/239053
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.matlab/browse_thread/thread/838a0cbe7f5d6e14

I hope this can be fixed - like the issue with the empty lines, which are back now!
Regards
Andres