5.6.3 Altering tab behavior

Tab width

You can specify a default tab width in twips (twentieths of a point):

[WordOptions]

; DefTabWidth = 0 (default, ignore undefined tabs)

; or twips (720 for 0.5")

DefTabWidth=0

Hidden tabs

You can choose to remove tabs that have no effect in a FrameMaker paragraph (because their nominal ruler positions are hidden by text), replace each with a space, or keep them in the output document:

[WordOptions]

; OccludedTabs = Remove (normal), Space, or Tab

OccludedTabs=Remove

Right tabs

You can specify how to treat right-alignment tabs:

[WordOptions]

; RMarginTabs =

; Left (return),

; Right (keep in col),

; Both (default),

; None

RMarginTabs=Both

Underlines

If you have underlined text in FrameMaker, and you tab within the text, by default FrameMaker does not continue the underline under the tabbed area. This is not what you want if you are making up a form, with ruled lines made from the underlines. Word defaults the other way: underlines continue. By default, Mif2Go turns off the underline for the tabbed areas in Word. To underline tabbed areas that follow underlined text, set the following option:

[WordOptions]

; UnderlineTabs = No (default, normal FrameMaker behavior) or Yes

UnderlineTabs=Yes

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