Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!kazim From: kazim@Apple.COM (Alex Kazim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Tabs in TextEdit Summary: WoW!! Message-ID: <46500@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 12 Nov 90 18:34:36 GMT References: <21590@well.sf.ca.us> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 14 In article <21590@well.sf.ca.us> oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster) writes: >yes, since TextEdit is multi-font now, you can create a font of 256 blanks, >varying in width from 1-pixel to 256 wide. you compute how wide a sp[ace you >need to simulate a tab, and replace the tab by an appropriate char from your >blankFont. >-- (Much Laughing). This is a pretty damn neat idea. Too bad TextEdit doesn't do this already. =================================================================== Alex Kazim Apple Computer ===================================================================