Text Tab Controls

Klaus Major kmajor at metascape.org
Tue Jun 25 02:25:01 EDT 2002


Hi Dave,

> Hi All,
>
> I am new to programing in rev. but have been developing for HC since vs 
> 1.2
>
> One of the applications I am developing has a fair number of text 
> generated reports. One
> item that I need is the ability to tab inset a paragraph.
>
> It would look like the following.
>
>    I have searched through the rev. dictionary but
>    could not find anything that would allow me
>    to develop this tabbed inset paragraph.
>
>        I have developed scripts that will insert a
>        predetermined number of spaces in order to \
>        generate this kind of look. Adding any text then can
> change the look of the report. It ends up looking
> something like       this.
>
> Most simple word processors can do this. I would like to see this added 
> to the future
> features request.
>
> Is there anything in rev that can do this?
>
> Any work other around suggests would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave Calkins

maybe "first indent" is what you are looking for ?

Check the docs for that.

I's a field property that you can set in the prop-pal, too.

(I hope i do understand you right...)



Regards


Klaus Major
kmajor at metascape.org




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