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- From: flui@fraser.sfu.ca (Francis Wai Gee Lui)
- Subject: Re: PageStream tabs
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.051251.6671@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <James_Hastings-Trew.0i7e@telepro.UUCP> <1992Aug12.003514.221@pro-freedom.cts.com> <1992Aug12.085058.840@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:12:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug12.085058.840@galaxy.gov.bc.ca> EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA writes:
- >In article <1992Aug12.003514.221@pro-freedom.cts.com>, eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown) writes:
- >> > What desktop publishers REALLY look for is proper TABS.
- >> > ProPage does not have them, and neither does PageStream.
- >>
- >> Well, page 5.5-5.6 of the PgS manual indicates that taps ARE available.
- >> Guess the definition hinges on the word "proper". Overlapping columns
- >> and/or proportional fonts wreck tabbing in many programs, not just PgS.
- >
- >Left-justfied TABS are supported, even for proportional fonts. That alone is a
- >miracle! What is not yet supported is right-justified tabs or period-justified
- >tabs. Numbers are frequently aligned over a period.
- >
- >The tabs still need some work, like if you have an article that scans multiple
- >columns, you'll have to manually set the tabs on each one rather than copy the
- >setting.
-
- Can't you just use a paragraph tag like in ProPage? Hmmm...maybe ProPage still
- has its uses after all.
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