On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Matti Picus wrote:

> Why does anyone use multiple tabs on a single line? I can understand
> things like getting the date to be right aligned at the far end of a
> salutations line that may contain a left tab, but are there real
> example documents around that contain multiple tabs and strange
> justifications where the author can explain what they were trying to
> obtain?

I used to make TOCs and the like with tabs:

   Chapter number [ltab] Title [rtab] page number

The advantage over tables was that you could use tab leaders
(I think that's what Word called them) to make things look
extra-super-spiffing.

Matthew.


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