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From: wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
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Subject: Re: Tabs
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Date: 27 Jul 90 22:56:31 GMT
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Excerpts from mail: 27-Jul-90 Re: Tabs David Nichols@parc.xerox (443)

> One feature I would really like from Tabs is that they can be made to
> emulate Unix tabs easily.  When I read mail with messages, I run across
> messages that have tables formatting for fixed with fonts.  So I use the
> "This Message,Fixed Width" menu item to see it fixed width, only to
> discover that the tabs still don't work right.  I'm not sure where the
> fix goes, but the Fixed Width menu item is a lot less useful to me in
> this mode.

> 	David


I'll bet I know why the tabs fail for typewriter font:
The textview object currently sets the tab width to 8 pixels.
The width of a character in andytype10 must be wider than 8 pixels.
Or it could be bugs in the tabbing code of drawtextv.

I think this problem can be repaired by incorporating the scaling factor
I mentioned: fatten tabs on the screen by the amount that the font is
fattened for screen display.  (Some multiplier between 1.25 and 1.16)

-wdc