Hello Tim and all, It's almost my bedtime and I've been teaching VoiceOver all day so I'm exhausted. Anyway, here's the workaround for tab stops.
To insert a tab stop * Jump to the Formatter. * Select layout and interact with the scroll area. * Go down to Tab stops and expand it with VO-Space. * Click the Add tab stop button and interact with the table. * Bring the mouse to the field showing the position of the tab stop and Double-click using VO-Shift-Space. * Enter the position at which you want your tab stop to be. * Interact with the field that says Alignment Left and bring the mouse. * Turn on Mouse keys. * Move the mouse right by pressing the letter o on a laptop or the 6 key on an extended keyboard 52 times then click with the letter i or the 5. * Move the mouse down the way with either k or 2 until you hear the type of tab stop you want, then click with i or 5. * You should now turn Mouse keys off again. Back in your document, press the Tab key before entering the text to be aligned on the tab stop. Cheers, Anne On 24 Apr 2014, at 22:18, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > What it sounds like you're looking for are "leaders". In things like a Table > of Contents, tabs are set in a manner whereby the Chapter or Section title is > entered, then leader dots are placed from the end the text over to the page > number. These dots are automatically placed using something called a > "leader" or a "fill". The leader can be dots (periods), dashes, underscores > or other symbols that one may desire. It sounds to me that you'd wish to use > underscores in this situation so that a solid line would be placed from the > end of the text to the far right of the text area. What you'd normally do > here is set a right tab-stop close to the right margin and set the underscore > as a leader for that specific tab. Now, the tricky part here is that > tab-stops are not particularly accessible in Pages at the moment. In the > Formatter, under the Layout pane of the Text formatter, you can set the > position of a tab but I haven't figured out how to tell it to be a right tab > and/or to set the Leader. Within the Tab table of the formatter, there is > the combo-box for each, but I haven't been able to manipulate them to change > from the default of Left and None. I believe that Anne posted some sort of > workaround for tabs in Pages a while back but I can recall what was > suggested. Anne may be able to shed some more light on this once the other > side of the Atlantic wakes up. So, it's possible in the sighted world, I > just haven't yet figured out how to make it work in the VO world. TextEdit > doesn't appear to have this functionality either, at least as far as I can > tell. > > Hope this helps some. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Apr 24, 2014, at 12:35 PM, Matt Dierckens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all. >> I got a call from a man requesting some training. However he had a question >> that stumped me and I told him I'd do some research. >> This guy wants to know if there's a way of putting blank spaces all the way >> to the end of a right margin. He gave an example of outlines with a sentence >> starter and then blanks all the way across. If there's a way to do this, >> please let me know. Thanks >> Matt Dierckens >> Macintosh Trainer >> Blind Access Training >> www.blindaccesstraining.com >> 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
