Hey JJ,

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.

Lol, thats ofcourse very usable: When you globally change the fontsize the
next thing you need to do is to re-calculate and enter all tabstops (to
match that new size).


I think this is because Wordpad uses a Rich Text control, rather
than multi-line plain text box like Notepad used

Although I understand what you are saying, its also nonsense outof the
direction of MS: A component which has got the intelligence to work with
variable-width text in multiple fonts & font-sizes as well as with embedded
objects (pictures) does not have the intelligence to (detect and) work with
fixed-width text(-parts) ? Thats plain silly.

There seems to be only one possible solution (which I consider a "hack", and
therefore do not particulary like), and that is to calculate *all* tabstops
for the editors default fixed-width font myself, and enter them into that
tab-settings box (the text working with is a program listing, and uses tabs
over the full width of the line). I'm not a happy camper. :-\

Shucks. I forgot something: Those tab-settings seem to be shared by all
modi (plain text, Rich text, word, write, embedded), which most likely would
make that "solution" worse than what it solves. Drats and double drats.

There seems to be only one solution: Find myself a real plain-text editor.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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JJ schreef in berichtnieuws
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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 n
ot
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.