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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: tabulators
From:       Tomasz Grobelny <grotk () poczta ! onet ! pl>
Date:       2002-11-16 17:40:52
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On sob 16. listopada 2002 17:10, David Faure wrote:
> On Saturday 16 November 2002 16:58, Tomasz Grobelny wrote:
> > On sob 16. listopada 2002 12:18, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Saturday 16 November 2002 11:31, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > > > But with <TABULATOR>, you have to define them one by one, in theory
> > > > up to the width of a landscape A0 page (or is there even a wider
> > > > format?).
> > >
> > > I thought that's what you wanted.
> > > If you simply want tabs every 3 pt, use <ATTRIBUTES tabStopValue="3">.
> > > Ah Tomasz says it doesn't work? Hmm, AFAIK it does, but the tabs just
> > > don't appear in the ruler. But if you press <tab>, or if the parag text
> > > uses \t, it uses that tabstop spacing, no?
> >
> > I made a mistake. It works but only when there are no tabulators defined
> > explicitely for certain paragraph. And I would need to have both
> > TABULATOR and tabStopValue working.
>
> Which way? IIRC I tested in MSWord and if you insert a tab in the ruler,
> then <tab> will go there, and <tab> again goes at the beginning of the next
> line, _not_ at "last tab + tabstopvalue". Or do I remember wrong?
Yes, you remember wrong ;-). I've just checked and it works like this: <tab> 
key stops on either next tabulator or tabStopValue*n. And that's how it 
should work IMO. OpenWriter works similar to MSWord, not the same way, but 
better than KWord.

Tomek
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