Tab issue with FrameMaker 8

[blamborn at comcast.net]

When I checked the formats of each paragraph style, I overlooked one on the heading that was giving me the problem. The box for the right indent on the Basic tab was set to 4.0". I reset it to zero and the tab/leader works properly now.

Thanks to all for your help.


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Klaus Daube" <frame at daube.ch>
> blamborn at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> > >> The tab mark is there, and I checked to make sure that all of the
> > >> definitions in the Paragraph Designer were the same for all (tab
> > >> position and leader type).
> ...
> 
> Something I have noticed with right tabulation:
> FM may trap into rounding errors (at least in the metric world). If you
> have a tab position R 18.0cm and a text frame 18.0cm wide it may happen
> that the tab is not performed. In such cases I just set the tab 
> position to 17.95 cm, which
> is not visible.
> 
> FM works internally with an unknown unit of measure (it may be a MIL = 
> 0.001 inch, but I am not certain)
> 
> FWIW
> Klaus Daube 
> 
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