At 12:53 -0700 5/18/08, Bill Rowe wrote: >On 5/18/08 at 12:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Reyna) wrote: > >>What's the best way to save a text file that's meant to be opened on >>a Windows machine? I want to preserve the formatting of a simple >>text file with spaces, tabs and new lines. > >First, replace all tabs with an appropriate number of spaces. This avoids >issues with tab settings reflecting a different number of spaces in different >clients.
If you do that be sure it still looks OK in BBEdit. And be sure you add something that insures that the Windoze user will know to use a monospaced font. Non-programmers will use a text processing program that allows for tab settings that vary across a line the way a mechanical typewriter works. If you have used multiple tab characters to move between columns when some are shorter - text wise - you have a problem that BBEdit may not handle. Replacing \t\t+ with \t in grep mode might work but it depends on software at the destination. MS-Excel, for instance, demands single tab characters between columns and has a terrible time with added spaces when the text has spaces inside the contents of a column. Bill Rowe continued: >Set the line endings to be consistent with Windows (CRLF) That's approved. The choice is a button at the very bottom of each document window. But a lot of destination software doesn't really care. If the recipient needs only to read the text with his eyeballs consider "printing" to PDF. -- --> From the U S of A, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it. <-- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a feature request? Not sure the software's working correctly? If so, please send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not to the list. List FAQ: <http://www.barebones.com/support/lists/bbedit_talk.shtml> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/BBEditTalk.lasso> To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
