SetTabRuler Text Command

SETTABRULER Text Commands

Sets the tabs for the paragraph at the insertion point, for selected paragraphs or for a style tag.

settabruler (< position> [LEADER unicode]>)... [DOCUMENT name | WINDOW name | STYLETAG name]

preset/k Sets the alignment type.

Options: LEFT | CENTER | RIGHT | USDECIMAL | EURODECIMAL.

CUSTOMDECIMAL/I Sets a custom alignment character.

position/d Sets the tab position.

LEADER/i Sets the fill character.

Default=none.

DOCUMENT/s The document name.

WINDOW/s The window name.

STYLETAG/s Sets the attribute for a style tag.

Notes:

To delete or move tabs from a script, you should get the existing tab positions and then reset them as required.

You can enter a unicode value if the character for the leader or custom decimal is not part of the AmigaDOS character set. Type a backslash followed by the unicode value for a unicode character.

Examples:

settabruler left 0.5 left 1.25 right 2.25

settabruler center 1.5

settabruler usdecimal 6 document 'project.doc'

settabruler customdecimal \8226

settabruler customdecimal ''

 

SetTabRuler  Command Definition  url:PGScmd/settabruler
  created:2006-03-31 10:53:00   last updated:2006-03-31 10:53:00
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User Contributed Comments For SetTabRuler
Dan Kilroy wrote...2006-05-04 17:08:20

Script command submitted from PageStream internal documentation. Needs to be checked and merged with the command documentation above.

Gets the {...} .

SetTabRuler ([<LEFT | CENTER | RIGHT | USDECIMAL | EURODECIMAL | CUSTOMDECIMAL unicode> position [LEADER unicode]] [DOCUMENT document | WINDOW document-window | STYLETAG document:...-tagname])


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User Contributed Comments For SetTabRuler