6.8.3 Altering tab behavior for Word output
You can modify some aspects of tab behavior in Word:
Comparing underlined vs. trailing tabs.
You can specify a default tab width in twips (twentieths of a point):
; DefTabWidth = 0 (default, ignore undefined tabs)
You can choose to remove tabs that have no effect in a FrameMaker paragraph (because their nominal ruler positions are hidden by text), replace each with a space, or keep them in the output document:
; OccludedTabs = Remove (normal), Space, or Tab
You can specify how to treat right-alignment tabs:
To preserve trailing tabs; for example, if you use a trailing tab to insert a signature line:
; TrailingTabs = No (default, omit trailing tabs) or Yes
; (preserve trailing tabs in Word output)
If you have underlined text in FrameMaker, and you tab within the text, FrameMaker does not continue the underline under the tabbed area (Word works the opposite way: underlines continue). By default, Mif2Go turns off the underline for the tabbed areas in Word output, which is not what you want if you are making up a form, with ruled lines made from the underlines.
To underline tabbed areas that follow underlined text:
; UnderlineTabs = No (default, normal FrameMaker behavior) or Yes
Comparing underlined vs. trailing tabs
These two settings (TrailingTabs and UnderlineTabs) are entirely different. Normally, at the end of a paragraph, Mif2Go simply cancels any leftover tabs. With TrailingTabs, Mif2Go writes them instead. With UnderlineTabs, Mif2Go does not write them.
To emulate FrameMaker behavior, Mif2Go turns off the underline just before the (first) tab, unless UnderlineTabs is set. TrailingTabs has no effect on that action.
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