Subject: Re: POW: Fix tabs for center, right and full Justification.
From: Matthew Kirkwood (matthew@hairy.beasts.org)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2001 - 04:30:47 CDT
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Matti Picus wrote:
> Why does anyone use multiple tabs on a single line? I can understand
> things like getting the date to be right aligned at the far end of a
> salutations line that may contain a left tab, but are there real
> example documents around that contain multiple tabs and strange
> justifications where the author can explain what they were trying to
> obtain?
I used to make TOCs and the like with tabs:
Chapter number [ltab] Title [rtab] page number
The advantage over tables was that you could use tab leaders
(I think that's what Word called them) to make things look
extra-super-spiffing.
Matthew.
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