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From: ns@CAT.CMU.EDU (Nicholas Spies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: tabs, for where art thou?
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Date: 18 Feb 88 14:20:29 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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Keywords: tabs, columns, text editing gripes

Try using Monaco or another fixed-width font; then padded text will at least
appear in regular columns. Also, don't forget the fixed-width option-space
character (the width of a number)... If the tab and shift-tab field selection
technique was fast then not supporting tabs might be justified. As it is, 
HyperCard has the main limitations and TE and few of its advantages.

Another problem (fixed in 1.1?) is that double-s German character (and possibly
others) are considered whitespace when double-clicking, so "grossen" selects
either "gro" or "en" but not the whole word.

Then of course there is the paricularly obnoxious problem of bogus word-wrap.
How much simpler it would be if only ASCII $20 were considered whitespace...
-- 
Nicholas Spies			ns@cat.cmu.edu.arpa
Center for Design
of Educational Computing
Carnegie Mellon University