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From: stone@hydra.unm.edu.unm.edu (Andrew Stone CS.DEPT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Question about Text fields
Summary: tab emulation
Keywords: tabs
Message-ID: <4041@charon.unm.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 88 06:20:42 GMT
References: <63526HKR@PSUVM> <21550@apple.Apple.COM>
Sender: news@charon.unm.edu
Reply-To: stone@hydra.unm.edu.UUCP (Andrew Stone CS.DEPT)
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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In article <21550@apple.Apple.COM> dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) writes:
>Fields cannot have tabs in them.  In order to do tables in a field you
>need to use a non-proportional font, such as Monaco or Courier.  This
>may not be fixed for a while.

But in order to avoid typing 8 spaces to effectuate a tab you can add this
to your functionkey script [if you have functionkeys...]

on functionkey which
  if which is 12
    then type "        "    -- or how many you prefer
  else
    pass functionkey    
  end if
end functionkey


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