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Subject: [OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (OFFICE-2884) 6.1.4 <text:tab> "A<text:tab> element reserves space from the current position up to the nexttab-stop, as defined in the paragraph's style information." "reserves"?
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Dennis Hamilton commented on OFFICE-2884:
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Patrick [Durusau],
Good heavens! How soon we have forgotten how typewriters and how the tab key works.
Sequences of <text:tab> are common and have well-understood meaning. Each one applies from where you are and does not include the tab stop you might be sitting on. So sequences of tabs move to successive tab stops. Manual typewriters and early electro-mechanical ones would hang up on the right end of the line if you ran out of tab stops and kept striking the tab key, but computers have smarter solutions than that, although I don't know that we have treated the edge cases (pun!) for tabbing.
I agree with using the simple statement from Michael Stahl's proposal. It should not be necessary to clariify that the next tab stop is never one that one has already reached. It might be neceesary to know how the covered space is rendered (especially as to character background and its opacity), but that might be better provided elsewhere.
Note: I have no question concerning interdependencies among <text:tab>, text:list-tab-stop-position and <text:index-entry-tab-stop> at this time [;<). My provisional assumption is that there are none.
> 6.1.4 <text:tab> "A <text:tab> element reserves space from the current position up to the next tab-stop, as defined in the paragraph's style information." "reserves"?
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> Key: OFFICE-2884
> URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-2884
> Project: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Text
> Affects Versions: ODF 1.2 CD 05
> Reporter: Patrick Durusau
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: ODF 1.2 CD 06
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> 6.1.4 <text:tab> "A <text:tab> element reserves space from the current position up to the next tab-stop, as defined in the paragraph's style information." "reserves"?
> Err, does this mean the <text:tab> element knows the distance between two tab stops?
> If so, that isn't what this says.
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