[Scribus] Survey: using tabs when alignment is other than 'left'

[Gregory Pittman]

Peter Nermander wrote:
>> I've a question for the users: how should tabs work in justified,
>> right-aligned or centered paragraphs?
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> This really depends on how you use tabs. Some people use tabs a lot to acheive
> intented paragraphs etc, which I think is an incorrect way of using it.
>
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I agree with this. The question comes down to, not so much how the tab 
function should work, but rather what is the end purpose for creating 
spacing in a line that a tab or something else accomplishes.
What I look for sometimes are some features of line spacing that I have 
in LaTeX, like 'hspace{}', or 'hspace*{}', or '\hfill', or '\hdot', 
which are very handy things, the nice thing being that you can use these 
anywhere in the line and know exactly what you're going to get. the 
'\hspace' functions are something like tabs usually function, but (I 
think) not quite the way tabs originally were implemented (on typewriters).

Greg