In short, what I want is to be able to: a) use proportional font in my editor b) be able to align things horizontally c) ensure that this alignment

In short, what I want is to be able to: a) use proportional font in my editor b) be able to align things horizontally c) ensure that this alignment is preserved when someone opens my code with another editor or another font Presently it's impossible to get all three, so I'm going with b) and c). seanmcdirmid seems to want only a) and b), but without c). As for solution, sean himself pasted something interesting: > Elastic tab stops: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/ http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/ I wasn't aware of that, but it seems interesting, but I didn't look into that much yet. Also, while it seems to cover half of c) (with different font) it will be probably editor dependent (EDIT: but then again, every other solution would be too).