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diff --git a/csrc/mdcode.mdc b/csrc/mdcode.mdc
index 8f53d18..e1498ce 100644
--- a/csrc/mdcode.mdc
+++ b/csrc/mdcode.mdc
@@ -800,8 +800,8 @@ This could go wrong if the first line of a code block marked by
 _`` ``` ``_ is indented.  To overcome this we would need to
 record some extra state in each `code_node`.  For now we won't bother.
 
-The indents we insert will all be spaces.  This might not work well
-for `Makefiles`.
+The indents we insert will mostly be spaces.  All-spaces doesn't work
+for `Makefiles`, so if the indent is 8 or more, we use a TAB first.
 
 ##### internal functions
 
@@ -818,7 +818,10 @@ for `Makefiles`.
 			fprintf(out, "#line %d \"%s\"\n",
 				node->line_no, fname);
 			while (len && *c) {
-				fprintf(out, "%*s", node->indent, "");
+				if (node->indent >= 8)
+					fprintf(out, "\t%*s", node->indent - 8, "");
+				else
+					fprintf(out, "%*s", node->indent, "");
 				if (node->needs_strip) {
 					if (*c == '\t' && len > 1) {
 						c++;