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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: New feature for 2.1 wanted (Clean solution you say?)
Message-ID: <17178@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 12 Oct 90 16:15:03 GMT
References: <10614@goofy.Apple.COM> <98061@cc.utah.edu> <90284.080451SAS102@psuvm.psu.edu>
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In article <90284.080451SAS102@psuvm.psu.edu> SAS102@psuvm.psu.edu (Steven A. Schrader) writes:

>delimited text, much as an item delimited text is an item. I know that this
>is not strictly, ASCII here, but If I want to print on the Laser my items
>will not line up if I use spaces (which would be an alternate way of doing
>things).
>
>The tab will also help to indent paragraphs of text. Since Apple extended ASCII
>supports the TAB why can;t it be added to HyperTalk?
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>         Steven A.  Schrader (SAS102 @ Psuvm.Bitnet)




Since when is the tab key not standard ASCII? I believe that the only problem
with the tab key is that textedit doesn't support it and since hypercard's
fields are based on TE the limitation will be there for a while.













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