[bksvol-discuss] Re: Formatting Tabs or Spaces

  • From: "Monica Cortada" <MCortada@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:51:37 -0400

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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  • From: "tom hawkins" <tjhawk1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • 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

 

  



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