On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 23:50:44 +0200, R.Wieser wrote:
Hello Auric__,

That's... weird. Did you happen to set some tab stops?

Nope. I just re-checked, the tabstops window shows none.

I did find that setting too, but when trying to use it I found I could not
select a "chars" measurement. Only inches, cm, points and picas where
available. And those seem to be aimed at non-fixed-width char display modi.

I did not find a "restore to defaults" for it either ...

I just noticed this too in my Windows XP.

Seems like Wordpad has default tab stops at every half inches, whether the
used font is variable or fixed pitch, and regardless of document format. If
I use Courier New at 8pt, one tab is equal to 7 characters. At 20pt, one tab
is equal to 3 characters.

I think this is because Wordpad uses a Rich Text control, rather than
multi-line plain text box like Notepad used. Same thing applies to Microsoft
Word. If I open a plain text file, Word automatically chooses a fixed font,
but the tab stop problem exists just like in Word pad. In Word 2000, it
automatically chose Courier New 10pt, but one tab is equal to 6 character.