diff --git a/crates/typst-library/src/text/raw.rs b/crates/typst-library/src/text/raw.rs
index 1b4a42236..a9d404140 100644
--- a/crates/typst-library/src/text/raw.rs
+++ b/crates/typst-library/src/text/raw.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use typst::diag::FileError;
 use typst::eval::Bytes;
 use typst::syntax::{self, LinkedNode};
 use typst::util::option_eq;
+use unicode_segmentation::UnicodeSegmentation;
 
 use super::{
     FontFamily, FontList, Hyphenate, LinebreakElem, SmartQuoteElem, TextElem, TextSize,
@@ -218,6 +219,21 @@ pub struct RawElem {
     #[internal]
     #[parse(theme_data.map(Some))]
     pub theme_data: Option<Bytes>,
+
+    /// The size for a tab stop in spaces. A tab is replaced with enough spaces to
+    /// align with the next multiple of the size.
+    ///
+    /// ````example
+    /// #set raw(tab-size: 8)
+    /// ```tsv
+    /// Year	Month	Day
+    /// 2000	2	3
+    /// 2001	2	1
+    /// 2002	3	10
+    /// ```
+    /// ````
+    #[default(2)]
+    pub tab_size: usize,
 }
 
 impl RawElem {
@@ -247,7 +263,12 @@ impl Synthesize for RawElem {
 impl Show for RawElem {
     #[tracing::instrument(name = "RawElem::show", skip_all)]
     fn show(&self, _: &mut Vt, styles: StyleChain) -> SourceResult<Content> {
-        let text = self.text();
+        let mut text = self.text();
+        if text.contains('\t') {
+            let tab_size = RawElem::tab_size_in(styles);
+            text = align_tabs(&text, tab_size);
+        }
+
         let lang = self
             .lang(styles)
             .as_ref()
@@ -609,3 +630,33 @@ fn item(
         },
     }
 }
+
+/// Replace tabs with spaces to align with multiples of `tab_size`.
+fn align_tabs(text: &str, tab_size: usize) -> EcoString {
+    let replacement = " ".repeat(tab_size);
+    let divisor = tab_size.max(1);
+    let amount = text.chars().filter(|&c| c == '\t').count();
+
+    let mut res = EcoString::with_capacity(text.len() - amount + amount * tab_size);
+    let mut column = 0;
+
+    for grapheme in text.graphemes(true) {
+        match grapheme {
+            "\t" => {
+                let required = tab_size - column % divisor;
+                res.push_str(&replacement[..required]);
+                column += required;
+            }
+            "\n" => {
+                res.push_str(grapheme);
+                column = 0;
+            }
+            _ => {
+                res.push_str(grapheme);
+                column += 1;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    res
+}
diff --git a/tests/ref/text/raw-tabs.png b/tests/ref/text/raw-tabs.png
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cac265e98
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/ref/text/raw-tabs.png differ
diff --git a/tests/typ/text/raw-tabs.typ b/tests/typ/text/raw-tabs.typ
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d31326c0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/typ/text/raw-tabs.typ
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+// Test tabs in raw code.
+
+---
+#set raw(tab-size: 8)
+
+```tsv
+Year	Month	Day
+2000	2	3
+2001	2	1
+2002	3	10
+```