Thank you, Håkan. I am working with rtfText and 4 or 5 tab-sizes, but this is very interesting and I will see what I can use. Is the Tab-size attribute an LC thing? If so, I don’t find anything about tab size in the dictionary.
Roger > On Mar 6, 2019, at 1:16 PM, Håkan Liljegren via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > There is a tab-size attribute that you can use but it can’t contain more than > one number and it only handles ”number of spaces” for a tab like > tab-size: 6 > Will give you 6-spaced tab. > To get the layout in HTML I instead suggest another approach. Replace each > tab with an HTML-element to convert the text into something more HTML-like. > I.e. > 1<tab>2<tab>3 can be converted to something like > <span>1</span><span>2</span><span>3</span> > Then you can style your HTML in the way you want… > Or if you really want table data in HTML you can use a (drumroll please ;) > <table>! > Converting a text field with tabs to an HTML table is a fairly > straightforward process: > > function tabTextToHTMLTable pText > set the itemDelimiter to tab > put "<table>” into tHTML > repeat for each line tLine in pText > put "<tr>” after tHTML > repeat for each item tItem in tLine > put ”<td>” & tItem & ”</td>” after tHTML > end repeat > put ”</tr>” after tHTML > end repeat > put "</table>” after tHTML > return tHTML > end tabTextToHTMLTable > > There is an OLD proposal (like from 1998 or 97 if I remember correct) about > tab-stops in HTML but to my knowledge it has never been implemented. > > :-Håkan > On 5 Mar 2019, 14:59 +0100, hh via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>, wrote: >>> Roger G. wrote: >>> Is there any way to export myFld to URL and retain the Tab spacings >>> 15,250,320 ? >>> ... >>> I’m working with rtfText instead of HTMLText. (Again, not sure if that >>> makes a >>> difference or even what the trades are of each). >> >> RtfText is, without a large JavaScript library, unusable as input for a >> browser >> widget (or a browser). The htmltext retains, alike rtfText, styled >> formatting. >> >>> Roger G. wrote: >>> I am not converting a "simple table field" but rather a simple field with >>> tabStops. >> >> A simple field with tabstops as input is OK. >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
