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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: tabulators
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2002-11-16 18:03:23
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AbiWord (1.02) does something else.

If for example, you fix a tabulator at 2 in and the tab stop at 0.5 in, you 
get in AbiWord: 2in, 2.5in, 3in, 3.5in and so on. So after the last explicit 
tabulator, you use again the tab stop value.

As far as I remember this was the behaviour of old MS Word versions.

Always using the tab stop, even when they are still tabulators available, is 
in my opinion not good. Or how do you do the classical headers/footers in 
three parts (left/center/right)?

Have a nice day/evening/night!

On Saturday 16 November 2002 18:40, Tomasz Grobelny wrote:
> 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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