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From: mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS)
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Subject: Re: How to do Tabs with TextEdit?
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Date: 16 Jan 91 21:26:39 GMT
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In article <4f3a0f50.14891@alpine.UUCP> pfluegerm@alpine.UUCP (Mike Pflueger)
writes:
>Is there a way to do tabs (i.e. tabulate the text) in TextEdit?
>Will there be in 7.0?
>
>I'm large blocks of output to a window with TextEdit, and I want
>to arrange the output in tab separated fields so the output is in
>centered columns.  I don't want to use a fixed width font and spaces.
>
>For example (centered tabs):
>
><tab> Heading1<tab>    Heading2<tab>    Heading3<CR>
>
><tab>    a<tab>           b<tab>           c<CR>
><tab>    d<tab>           e<tab>           f<CR>
><tab>    g<tab>           h<tab>           i<CR>
>
>
>Has anyone done this?  Any ideas?  Will TextEdit in 7.0 do it?
>

As I recall, a number of us at the "Bash Apple" session at MacHack were really
high on tabs being a needed feature in the TextEdit package. Maybe it is time
for us all to 'Link Jordan about this, eh?

JEM