Re: [ft] Tab (\t) escape space

[Adam Twardoch (List)]

Tabs normally work as if you split the line and position it independently, as 
if the portions of the line separated by tabs are set in columns. For example, 
a string: "Hello\tWorld\n\Bye\tEarth" would be rendered in two lines in such 
way that "Bye" starts under "Hello" and "Earth" starts under "World". There are 
no "tab glyphs" that would solve that for you and I don't think FreeType 
provides tab handling out of the box, so this needs to be handled outside of 
FreeType. Also, there is no standard for the width of the tab, so you need to 
make up one for you. 

A.

On 20 Jul 2014, at 17:11, Michael IV <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi All.I can't understand how I convert tab (backslash t) to glyph numerics.
> I mean,if I have "Hello\tWorld" string ,how many spaces should I insert 
> between 
> "Hello" and "World" ?
> 
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