Removes tabs, newlines, and carriage returns and manipulates the text so that
it looks the renders the same as it did with those horizontal control
characters embedded. This function is used when the
convert.hz.white.space parameter to the
diff* methods is active. The term “strip”
is a misnomer that remains for legacy reasons and lazyness.
strip_hz_control(txt, stops = 8L)character to covert
integer, what tab stops to use
This is an internal function with exposed documentation because it is referenced in an external function's documentation.