Notebook tab width

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Fri, 09/25/2015 - 07:41 am

Is there a way to set the tab width in the NOTEBOOK settings? Some of my notebook fields are falling between 1 and 2 tab widths making it impossible to format the notebook correctly. If I could change the amount of space the tab character moves I think it would help. Any thoughts. Thanks in advance.

ssmith@bnl.gov
From the "Notebook Properties" help section:
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In a formatted notebook, the ruler displays the default tab stops and you can adjust them by dragging. Although the default tab stops are indicated in the ruler, there is only one default tab width setting for the entire document, not one for each ruler.


In a plain text notebook there is no ruler so you must use the defaultTab keyword of the Notebook operation. For example:
NewNotebook/F=0/N=Test
Notebook Test, defaultTab=200   //Default tab width in points


However, in a plain text file, there is no place to save any settings, so the default tab width setting is not restored of you close and reopen a plain text file. You would have to set it each time you open the file.

(Actually, that is not quite right. On Macintosh it is saved in the file's resource fork and restored if you reopen the file. On Windows data files have no resource forks so there is no place to save settings and thus they are not saved and restored.)

September 25, 2015 at 08:37 am - Permalink