An MLTE in our app has been truncating characters from view under
certain conditions. It is a read-only MLTE, displaying up to 33
columns of numbers, with columns delimited by tabs. After ruling out
margins and the destination rectangle it seems that the maximum
number of tabs is the problem - after about 20 tab stops the text is
not displayed. I have copied out the text and pasted it into an
editor to verify that the truncated columns are there, just not
visible in the MLTE.
Oh, so I am not crazy. :-) I have the same problem, it is very
disturbing, over a certain
number of tab stops, the rest of the line disappears completely, but I
never saw anyone
mentioning the problem. Ugly bug, yet another example showing that MLTE is
insufficient and we need a good open source solution (especially now
when MLTE
doesn't seem to have a future anyway).
My question is: is there a way to increase the number of tab stops in
an MLTE?
Not as far as I have read.
My solution will be to simply disallow tab stops over the maximum
number, replacing
them with spaces, but I guess that won't help you. Would it be possible
for you to use a
fix-spaced font?
If you are not making an editor but rather displaying lists, skip MLTE
and roll it yourself.
Simply displaying text is pretty easy.
/Ingemar
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