RE: Converting TABS to equivalent SPACES ?

["Brian Henderson" brian-henderson@xxxxxxxx]

Jordan, I don't know whether a program operating outside of U2 would be useful to you, but this macro does a good job of
converting all tabs to spaces and leaving your file looking the same:

http://www.xywrite.com/macs/tabgone.htm

-Brian H.

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 3:19 PM
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Subject: Re: Converting TABS to equivalent SPACES ?


Thanks for your reply Carl.

Carl Distefano wrote:

> Reply to note from "J. R. Fox"  Tue, 30 Sep 2003
> 21:21:15 -0800
>
> > I thought DELTAGS was supposed to render out the Tabs, but
> > maybe I misunderstood its design.
>
> DELTAGS deletes tabs adjacent to tags, but not otherwise.

That must have been why it consistently missed the ones in this schedule
I
d/l each month. Their formatting seems to go that way.

> > So I looked through jumbo U2, in search of something that might
> > convert found Tabs to the hard space equivalents.
>
> The TYS command does that -- with side effects, of course.

Hmm, forgot about that. I'll have to give it a try.


Jordan