Subject: the Tab prblem -- request for input
From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Sun Oct 07 2001 - 02:34:58 CDT
I have started working on the Tabs, and then it dawned on me; a
tab in a right-aligned paragraph does not make much sense. The
point of a tab is to push text right-wards, but the right-aligned text
is alread pushed right to the limit. We have two options:
(1) we push the text leftwards to the _previous_ tab stop. This
rather cumbersome, and probably will not produce the result the
user wants, but there is some logic to it (the tab arrow would need
to point leftwards though).
(2) we treat the Tab as a fixed-width character, either 0, or,
probably better, a hardcoded fraction of the font ascent. We could
pop up a message box, explaining what is happening.
Which alternatives should we take? I would appreciate your input.
(2) is much simpler, but (1) is potentially more ellegant, once the
user gets used to it.
In the case of centered paragraphs, I think we should definitely
take (2), implementing any meaningful behaviour if the user decides
to put in more than 1 tab would be quite difficult.
Tomas
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