>> If I insert a hard line-break by hitting <Return> at the end of a >> line and press <Tab> at the start of the next line, it means that I >> want the text on that new line to start indented away from the >> window edge.
Heartily agreed! :-) S> I'm afraid, you do not understand what plain text is - it's just a S> raw text with no formatting hints other than characters with S> variable widths and line breaks. To me, tabs, spaces, carriage returns and line feeds are part and parcel of 'plain text'. They should not be ignored, replaced or erased. (except maybe for any useless trailing tabs/spaces at the ends of lines) In the old days, plain text 'formatting' never led to any problems because all we had was fixed-width characters. And frankly, I think MicroED should not use any proportional fonts either. I don't see how it makes sense to use proportional fonts in a plain-text editor. A text file that truly has no formatting at all -just endless lines that each represent a paragraph- used to be called 'flat text'. Again in the old days, if you were writing a book or an article, you often had to submit flat text so that an editor could import it in his publishing software and format it himself. S> Tabs have no meaning for plain text with variable width characters S> because there is no way to define tab stops. If no other tab size has been set, it should default to 8 spaces wide. S> Paragraph indents and margins cannot be defined for plain S> text either. They can, simply by indenting the text with tabs and/or spaces! Provided that you use a fixed font, of course! :] S> If you want to use all this typography stuff in email, S> you have to use HTML at least, Boo, hiss! HTML is an attachment, not e-mail. Shame on Microsoft for foisting HTML upon us. I hope that MicroEd in The Bat v9 will work just like it does in v8. It isn't perfect but at least it does allow for some basic forma^H^H^H^H^H structuring. Best, -Daniel- ________________________________________________________ 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
