Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Kevanf1 <kevanf1@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/11/05, Frank Bax <fbax@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 10:39 AM 11/29/05, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>
> >Frank,
> >
> >On Tuesday 29 November 2005 06:31, Frank Bax wrote:
> > > At 08:35 AM 11/29/05, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> > > >In an ordinary office document you can line things up with tabs by
> > > >pressing the tab key.
> > >
> > > NO, that's not how to line things up in an office document!
> >
> >Huh? You certainly can set tabs in every word processor with which I'm
> >familiar, even vaguely. Then by embedding tabs in the text, you can get
> >(TA-DA!) tabular presentation.
> >
> >Tables are not the only way to produce tabular presentation in word
> >processors, though they are (I believe) in HTML.
>
>
> Big difference between "can" and "should".  I've seen too many problems
> with tabular data separated with tabs when things like font, margins or
> paper size are changed later.  Using tabs is extremely fragile.  Also, most
> people don't bother to actually change tab settings when entering tabular
> data in this manner, they simply hit "tab" until the data "appears" to line
> up; which just makes things even worse when something changes later.
>
>
> --

In a none complex document you 'should' use tabs.  If you want
complexity  then you should look into using a table if the program is
capable of it.  If the lines start to wrap then line the tabs up
appropiately, it's easy enough to do.

For once this is my territory :-)  I've been taught both standard
English office practice and Business English.  I may not be a
programmer but I do know about this :-)

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