From ef8408869cebac380474deb971c4b6910680c895 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Schember <john@nachtimwald.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:13:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] TXT Output: preserve spaces, handle tab character correct.
 &#09; is reduced to a single space by many renderers.

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/txt/processor.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/processor.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/processor.py
index a12e8a0761..dac1e34df7 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/processor.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/processor.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ def separate_paragraphs_print_formatted(txt):
 
 def preserve_spaces(txt):
     txt = txt.replace(' ', '&nbsp;')
-    txt = txt.replace('\t', '&#09;')
+    txt = txt.replace('\t', '&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;')
     return txt
 
 def opf_writer(path, opf_name, manifest, spine, mi):