The Tabs palette

The Tabs palette contains controls for setting the default tab spacing, and for modifying tabs.

By default, Pagehand places equally spaced tabs in every paragraph. You can adjust that spacing, or you can disable the default tabs altogether. Default tabs do not appear in the ruler.

Text is aligned to a default tab only if there aren’t enough real tabs to align all the tab characters.

A tab affects the location of the text that follows it. There are four types of tab:

The default decimal tab character is determined by your System Preferences.

You can add a leader to a tab. A leader is a dotted, dashed, or solid line drawn between the character preceding the tab and the tab location.

You can modify an existing tab by setting its location, type, and leader type. For a decimal tab, you can set the decimal character.

To set the default tab spacing:

A default tab spacing of 0 disables default tabs.

To modify an existing tab:

Note that you add and remove tabs using the ruler.