Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!smyser From: smyser@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Tabs Message-ID: <9007271416.AA01409@M9-552-1.MIT.EDU> Date: 27 Jul 90 14:16:19 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 28 Tom Neuendorffer writes: >> So what do people want tabs for anyway? >> [An Andrew ToolKit view (a spreadsheet) was included here, but could not >> be displayed.] This illustrates precisely the problem with relying on Table to do it all. On my desk I have three computers: this MIT Project Athena workstation with EZ as my favorite editor, a PC on which I often use one of Word for Windows, Wordperfect or Epsilon, and a Mac with Word. They're all connected to the net, and I have to routinely move data files and documents files between formats and programs. I want a tabbed document from the PC or Mac to be viewable on the workstation without herculean cutting and pasting or filtering into tables. Thus, I'd say, tabs in the basic editor have to work somewhat. "Somewhat" could mean every half inch left-justified and that's all. (that's about all on the PC too, and in the default settings of Macintosh and Windows Word, as well as WP). If the screen fonts have dpi metrics associated with them, measured tabs shouldn't be so hard to work out. Rob Smyser ---------- Manager, Computer Resource Laboratories MIT School of Architecture and Planning 77 Mass Ave #9-512, Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 253-3535 smyser@athena.mit.edu