I guess I didn't ask my question well. Let me try again. Although tabs can be adjusted to any length, they equal about five spaces when used to indicate a paragraph indentation. So, tabs would need to be replaced with five caret w's to maintain the format of the original text. Since the text looks and sounds the same whether it has one tab or five spaces, what happens in the .brf files? Which is better, or less garbled, a tab or five spaces in a row? Monica in Maryland
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- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 14:32:57 -0400
Hi monica, If I'm not mistaken Gerald , as I do a global search and replace, in M S Word with a carrot w and replace with a space. That gets rid of the tab characters and replaces them with the single space. HTH Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: Monica <mailto:MCortada@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cortada To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 6:33 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Formatting Tabs or Spaces There were a few messages as while back about converting tabs to spaces because of Braille conversion errors with tabs. I think that was followed by comments about converting tabs to spaces and the resulting annoyance of all those extra spaces, and comments about whether converting tabs to double spacing between paragraphs is too substantial a change from the original document. If there was a resolution, I missed it and now I don?t know what to do about the paragraph formatting in the book I?m currently working on. Monica in Maryland __________ NOD32 1.1576 (20060602) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
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