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Subject:RE: Frame to HTML: Way to preserve tabs? From:"Karen Koldyk" <kkoldyk -at- email -dot- fleming -dot- com> To:<john -at- freelock -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:35:37 -0600
You can use a cascading style sheet and create a tag with a term such as =
<bodyoffset> for indented text. Fool the system by changing the margin in =
the css tag to where you want the para to start.
Also the pre tag has preset tabs around every 8 spaces or so. You can't =
change these but if a table fits....it's useable.
Karen Koldyk
SQA Tech. Writer
Fleming Companies Inc.
kkoldyk -at- email -dot- fleming -dot- com
>>> "John Locke" <john -at- freelock -dot- com> 01/19 10:40 AM >>>
Another suggestion...
I'm not a Frame user (yet), but I do know HTML. Frame must be using
paragraph tags for these lines, rather than line breaks. In Word, you can
get a line break by typing SHIFT-ENTER instead of just ENTER. Then, when =
you
export to preformatted text, you won't get the extra line. I assume Frame
must be able to do something similar...
The caveat here is that the entire block will be treated as a single
paragraph.
If I use spaces instead of tabs and map my code text to preformatted text,
the
indentation is preserved but then an extra line is added:
<asdf>
<asdf>
<asdf>
<asdf>
<asdf>
<asdf>
Any workarounds? ...I tried writing a macro (replacing \t with ), =
but
it
didn't work ....although I may not have done it properly.
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