How to set tab positions in the RTFtext?

[stephen barncard]

Then I put the htmlText of fld "fData" into URL "file:C:\data.rtf"

what happens when you put the RTFTEXT of fld "data" ?  is that a typo?

On 14 September 2011 15:57, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Mark Stuart <mstuart at adaptcrm.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Roger,
> > The tabstop is \tab in WordPad?
> > What are you using as a tabstop in the HTML field?
> > Just replace it with "\tab", right?
>
>
> The field is a regular table field with tabstops.  I loop through the text
> and replace a word here and there with an html color string.  Then I set
> the
> htmlText of the field to the modded text that has html codes.  It looks
> good
> so far.  Then I put the htmlText of fld "fData" into URL "file:C:\data.rtf"
> When I open it in Wordpad, the tabs are all wrong, so I select all and add
> tabs and save the file.
>
> If I load the binfile: of the raw RTF file from LC into a field, I see alot
> of /par codes (paragraph??? idunno).  If I load the binfile: of the raw RTF
> file AFTER adding tabs in Wordpad, you're right, there are "\tab" tags all
> throughout.
>
> I don't think these are one to one replaceable, but I'll try a few things.
>
> ˜Roger
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