From: Bob Batson (rcb@KC.RR.COM)
Date: 26 Oct 00, 12:08 EST
From: Bob Batson <rcb@KC.RR.COM> Subject: Re: "Tabs to Spaces" beneath Text menu At 12:01 AM -0400 10/21/00, Vince Darley <vince@SANTAFE.EDU> wrote: >Can you describe what you want a little more? Is this supposed to apply >only to documents you write, or to any document you open in Alpha? What >do you want the 'tab' key to do when you press it? Sure! But before I go any further, please disregard anything I write that sounds sarcastic or patronizing. I'm just not too good putting my thoughts into words. First, this would apply only to documents I write with Alpha. Whenever I press the tab key I would like the Alpha's cursor to travel horizontally 8 spaces to the right as set by Config - Set Font Tabs (F8) - [or Config - Preferences - Appearance]. This number just happens to be the default tab spacing of my previous editor (TSEjr/2) as used on my OS/2 computer and is arbitrary. And each time I press the tab key, I'd like the distance it travels to the right to be automatically converted into the actual number of spaces it travels. Therefore in my case, if I pressed tab twice, Alpha would 'see' that the cursor had moved from column 0 to column 16 with 16 spaces preceding the cursor, not just 2 tabs. I found that when I write documents with Alpha, import them into Appleworks and print them, the resulting hard-copy appears very different then the document written with Alpha. -- Bob Batson L 39 12 14 N 94 33 16 W rcb@kc.rr.com Kansas City TCS - Mystic Fire Priest USDA Zone 5 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Under the most controlled conditions, the experimental apparatus will do exactly as it pleases.