NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/sys/mac/hypercar/4291

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From: [e-mail] (Mark H. Nodine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Emulating tabs in print reports
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 23 Nov 92 20:08:12 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Sender: [e-mail]
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
|> OK, here's the problem (some might find this an odd mission, but HyperCard
|> should be kinky!)
|>
|> I've go t a field I want to print out as part of a print report.  I don't
|> want to load up the field with all sorts of "on mouseleave" type handlers,
|> just let the user type what she or he wants.  When I print the field in
|> the Report, however, I want to give it an indented effect.  In Word, this
|> would be like inserting a tab before each line to indent, say, half an inch.

I don't understand what the problem is.  In your Print Report template, why
don't you just move the left side of the item printing the field?

    --Mark