JDA@CU.NIH.GOV (Doug Ashbrook) (10/26/89)
I am having a problem with tabs in TML Pascal II. The problem has not been fixed by the recent version 1.1 update of TML Pascal II. The problem is that lines containing embedded tabs are not displayed correctly by the TML editor. To check it out, I created a line repeating the ten digits 1234567890 several times. Then on the next line place a tab, any character, another tab, another character, etc. You will notice that the tabs do *NOT* position the characters correctly (even if you select the Courier font which is mono-spaced). When I called TML Systems about this, Vince Cooper said that this was a problem in Apple's TextTool toolbox routines. Is Apple aware of this problem? ==================================================================== J. Douglas Ashbrook (301) 496-5181 BITNET: JDA@NIHCU <-- preferred address INTERNET: JDA@CU.NIH.GOV or jda%nihcu.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu National Institutes of Health, Computer Center, Bethesda, MD 20892 -+- Remember. If some weirdo in a blue suit offers you some MS-DOS, JUST SAY NO!
mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) (10/29/89)
>I am having a problem with tabs in TML Pascal II. The problem has >not been fixed by the recent version 1.1 update of TML Pascal II. >The problem is that lines containing embedded tabs are not displayed >correctly by the TML editor. To check it out, I created a line >repeating the ten digits 1234567890 several times. Then on the next >line place a tab, any character, another tab, another character, etc. >You will notice that the tabs do *NOT* position the characters >correctly (even if you select the Courier font which is mono-spaced). >When I called TML Systems about this, Vince Cooper said that this was >a problem in Apple's TextTool toolbox routines. Is Apple aware of >this problem? > Let's stop before this goes any further. Text Tools are routines built into the IIgs to use the text screen. The desktop text editing tool that's new to System Software 5.0 is *TextEdit*. Don't confuse me more than I already am. TextEdit has the capability to make tabs be a certain number of spaces or at specific pixel positions. If you find that tabs always place the characters at certain places, I'll bet TML's editor has TextEdit using absolute pixel positions. I know that their editor's auto-tab function simply inserts a fixed number of spaces, and not a tab (\t) character. Perhaps this is a similar thing. >J. Douglas Ashbrook (301) 496-5181 >BITNET: JDA@NIHCU <-- preferred address >INTERNET: JDA@CU.NIH.GOV or jda%nihcu.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu >National Institutes of Health, Computer Center, Bethesda, MD 20892 > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Deatherage, Apple Computer, Inc. | "The opinions expressed in this tome Send PERSONAL mail ONLY (please) to: | should not be construed to imply that Amer. Online: Matt DTS | Apple Computer, Inc., or any of its ThisNet: mattd@apple.com | subsidiaries, in whole or in part, ThatNet: (stuff)!ames!apple!mattd | have any opinion on any subject." Other mail by request only, please. | "So there." -----------------------------------------------------------------------------