TabStops and Tab Spacings

[Roger Guay]

Thank you, Håkan. I am working with rtfText and 4 or 5 tab-sizes, but this is very interesting and I will see what I can use. Is the Tab-size attribute an LC thing? If so, I don’t find anything about tab size in the dictionary.

Roger

> On Mar 6, 2019, at 1:16 PM, Håkan Liljegren via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> There is a tab-size attribute that you can use but it can’t contain more than one number and it only handles ”number of spaces” for a tab like
> tab-size: 6
> Will give you 6-spaced tab.
> To get the layout in HTML I instead suggest another approach. Replace each tab with an HTML-element to convert the text into something more HTML-like. I.e.
> 1<tab>2<tab>3 can be converted to something like
> <span>1</span><span>2</span><span>3</span>
> Then you can style your HTML in the way you want…
> Or if you really want table data in HTML you can use a (drumroll please ;) <table>!
> Converting a text field with tabs to an HTML table is a fairly straightforward process:
> 
> function tabTextToHTMLTable pText
>    set the itemDelimiter to tab
>    put "<table>” into tHTML
>    repeat for each line tLine  in pText
>       put "<tr>” after tHTML
>           repeat for each item tItem in tLine
>               put ”<td>” & tItem & ”</td>” after tHTML
>           end repeat
>       put ”</tr>” after tHTML
>    end repeat
>    put "</table>” after tHTML
>   return tHTML
> end tabTextToHTMLTable
> 
> There is an OLD proposal (like from 1998 or 97 if I remember correct) about tab-stops in HTML but to my knowledge it has never been implemented.
> 
> :-Håkan
> On 5 Mar 2019, 14:59 +0100, hh via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
>>> Roger G. wrote:
>>> Is there any way to export myFld to URL and retain the Tab spacings 15,250,320 ?
>>> ...
>>> I’m working with rtfText instead of HTMLText. (Again, not sure if that makes a
>>> difference or even what the trades are of each).
>> 
>> RtfText is, without a large JavaScript library, unusable as input for a browser
>> widget (or a browser). The htmltext retains, alike rtfText, styled formatting.
>> 
>>> Roger G. wrote:
>>> I am not converting a "simple table field" but rather a simple field with
>>> tabStops.
>> 
>> A simple field with tabstops as input is OK.
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