Hi Jonas.
Of course there is a VERY GOOD reason why Calamus treats TABulators in its own way. It's because of its "sticky" TABs.
As you might have seen already in the Calamus manual (e.g. here: [url]http://www.calamus.net/man/us/mod/txt/090101.htm[/url]), you can define a position for a TAB in the textruler, but you will define the treatment of the TAB by chosing one of three ways how to use it.
In the first example image of the mentioned manual page, you see a TAB in the middle of a text frame. Underneath you see the three lines
[img]http://www.calamus.net/man/img/mod/txt/us/tab.gif[/img]
This is not possible with other programs until you use THREE different RULERs. In Calamus, you simply type in:
123.[TAB]45
[TAB]Tabulator
Tabulator[TAB]
and the results are a decimal point justified tab, a left tab and a right tab, all of them using the same TAB control code in ONE RULER.
If you want to center a phrase under a certain TAB, you have to type:
[TAB]phrase[TAB]
which works with blanks within the phrase, too, as the next image shows:
[img]http://www.calamus.net/man/img/mod/txt/us/tab_4_words.gif[/img]
You may place a [TAB] control code whereever you want, e.g. like this:
123[TAB].[TAB]45 (centering the "." under the TA
12[TAB]3.45 (left or right tabbing of the TAB position IN a phrase)
This is what we call "sticky" tabs - with very rich possibilities.
Grüße / Greetings / Groetjes / Salutations,
Ulf Dunkel
