Re: [libreoffice-users] Tabs in selection of text

Hi.
What version of LO do you have.
Just as a test, can you click into just 1 line and then add a tab stop
to the ruler.
Steve

On 08/04/2019 10:37, Carl Paulsen wrote:
> On 4/7/19 12:55 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
>
> > At 20:37 03/04/2019 -0400, Carl Paulsen wrote:
> > > I have a number of "paragraphs" of text (job listing section of a
> > > resume) for which I'd like to add tab stops.
> >
> > Are these true paragraphs? I'm not sure why you have given the word
> > scare quotes. If they are not true paragraphs, what you with tab
> > stops may not behave as you expect.
>
>
> Ummmm.  What's the definition of a true paragraph, in particular as
> distinct from, say, a line in a bulleted list, and why does that
> matter?  I simply want to take lines of text and apply some tab stops
> to it (the full set of text prior to the next carriage return, whether
> a paragraph or lines of bulleted text or whatever).  These will be
> left justified tab stops.  Simple enough I thought.
>
>
> > > I select the lines and click the tab stop I want, then click in the
> > > ruler, but nothing happens.
> >
> > "Lines" are not really a word processing concept, as text reflows
> > automatically as you edit it. Tab stops are applied to paragraphs.
> > Are you clicking in the *horizontal* ruler, above the text window?
> > Incidentally, are you simply missing how tab stops work? They do
> > nothing by themselves: you need also to insert tab *characters* (or
> > other formatting) into your text to control how the tab stops take
> > effect.
>
> I select the lines of text to which I want to apply the tab stops.  I
> click on the tab stop box in the upper left of the document to select
> which type of tab I want, then click in the horizontal ruler where I
> want that tab to go.  Nothing happens. No tab stop.  I most definitely
> MUST be missing how tab stops work, hence why I posted.  But in every
> other program I've used it works similarly to how I describe.
>
>
> > > I see no menu item to format tabs, though I did stumble into one
> > > dialog box with Tabs that required manual setting and it was unclear
> > > just where those tabs would be applied.
> >
> > Tabs are a paragraph property as well as a paragraph style property:
> > o For paragraph formatting, go to Format | Paragraph... | Tabs (or
> > right-click | Paragraph... | Tabs).
> > o For paragraph style formatting, go to Format | Styles and
> > Formatting... | right-click style | Modify... | Tabs (or right-click
> > | Edit Paragraph Style... | Tabs).
>
> That's what's odd.  In the lines of text I want to apply the tabs,
> there is no Tab option in Format | Paragraph.  Again, hence my
> question.  I do wish I could just set tabs in the ruler as at times I
> want to apply the tabs, look at the  result, and make adjustments. 
> Requiring manual tab setting makes that process much more cumbersome.
>
>
> > > In the help document
> > > (https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Inserting_and_Editing_Tab_Stops)
> > >  it says for changing one or more paragraphs: "Select the
> > > paragraphs, then click inside the ruler."
> > > That is most definitely not working.
> > So what exactly happens when you try? Do you not see a tab stop in
> > the ruler?
>
> Exactly.
>
>
> Carl


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