r-id="no-tabs">No tabs</h3>
<p>Stan programs should not contain tab characters. Using tabs to layout a program is highly unportable because the number of spaces represented by a single tab character varies depending on which program is doing the rendering and how it is configured.</p>
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<h3 class="unnumbered anchored" data-anchor-id="two-character-indents">Two-character indents</h3>
<p>Stan has standardized on two space characters of in