On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Ed Vance wrote to Holger Granholm:

 HG> Regarding Tabs: Most editors can be set to start a new
 HG> paragraph with a set number of spaces or Tabs. QEdit does also
 HG> have this feature. Exceptions are only the simplest of editors
 HG> like EDIT.COM, TED (Tiny Editor) and maybe Wordpad. I don't
 HG> know the last mentioned but I do know that you can set MM to
 HG> use the editor of your choice.

 EV> EDIT and Wordpad can use Tabs too.
 EV> EDIT has 8 space tabs
 EV> Wordpad has 10 spaces for 10 point Ariel
 EV> Wordpad has  9 spaces for 14 point Ariel

ummm... you can't count them like that for Ariel if it is not a monospaced
font... check the width of the 'i' and the 'w' to see if they are truly
monospaced... both should be the same width if they are... when all else
fails, use LIST.COM on the /text/ file to see the real truth ;)

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