How are Tab characters handled in Write()?

[Brent Rose]

If I output plain text containing tab (#9) characters such as:

'One'#9'Two'#9'Three'

using Write(), for example, I get some perfectly reasonable out like:

'One Two Three'

There is no particular problem here, but I wondered exactly how VPE is treating tabs internally to get this result? Can the amount of white space corresponding to each tab character be controlled?

Thanks.

[IDEAL Software Support]

For plain text objects, tab characters are handled as a single white space. If you want to output parts of text on different positions, you can output the parts as separate objects on the desired positions.

Rich Text (RTF) does handle left aligned tabs, but no decimal, centered or right aligned tabs. The tab positions for RTF can be specified either by code using the VPE API, or they can be specified inside the RTF using RTF tokens.