Subject: Re: tabs - should we implement like buggy '97, or what?
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Mon Dec 06 1999 - 19:29:05 CST
At 06:54 PM 12/6/99 -0600, Stephen Hack wrote:
>consider this example
>
>1<tab>2<tab>3<tab>4<tab>5<tab>6<tab>10101010101010101010
>
>With the top ruler like this (one center tab at 8")
>
> ] <c tab> [
>
>
> 1 <tab> 2
> <tab> 3
> <tab> 4
> <tab> 5
> <tab> 6
><tab> 10101010101010101010<tb> |
>
>
>It will display the 10 10's with the last few off the screen. How should we
>implement this? Allow drawing out into the margins? and off the page?
Yep. Screw cases suck, but you've gotta handle them somehow. Unless you've
got a proposal which clearly works better enough to be worth breaking
compatibility, we may as well be consistent. Fortunately, in cases like
this, people are unlikely to author content with this (particular) problem.
To put it another way, if the document looks bad in Word, it should look
just as bad here. :-(
Paul
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