[softwarelist] Re: OPW - Tabs, hanging indents, and justification

  • From: "Bruce Goatly" <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 10:44:07 -0000

David Pilling wrote:

> I think the situation is that tabs and justification (of any kind) 
> are
> not compatible and you'll get unreliable results.
>
> This goes back a long way, my thoughts were that tabs and
> justification don't make sense together, however Chris Ford pointed
> out that the correct behaviour is to justify the text after the last
> tab stop. One day I may do that.

Heh. Funny thing - I did exactly that when I wrote FontStyle for the 
BBC Micro back in 1988... But that's a bit off topic here, I suspect.

Bruce

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