keeping tabstops intact when exporting an rtf?

[BNig]

Hi Malte,

in a very short test on a Mac exporting rtfText of a field into a file tabs
were seen by TextEdit, but not by Word 2008 for Mac, they were displayed as
underscores.
When exporting the same 2 line 6 word text from TextEdit as formatted text
Word could read it. The only difference I found was that LiveCode uses \'09
for tabs and TextEdit used an acutal tab.
Replacing \'09 with tab in rtfText resulted in a Word-readable file

content of field 1:

apple	pears	oranges
one	two	three
-------------
on mouseUp
   put the rtfText of field 1 into tData
   replace "\'09" with tab in tData
   put specialFolderPath("desktop") & "/" & "rtfTest.rtf" into tPath
   put tData into url ("file:" & tPath)
end mouseUp
---------------

I am not claiming this solves all problems but for this very simple example
it worked.

Kind regards
Bernd




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