tab

Node type: Element (may contain text and/or other elements)

Whitespace: Not protected

Definition

Marks the location of a tab space.

Code Sample

<poetry>

<stanza>

<line paraID="4">Make the <emphasis>heart</emphasis> of this people fat,</line>

<line paraID="5"><tab/>and make their <emphasis>ears</emphasis> heavy,</line>

<line paraID="6"><tab/><tab/>and shut their <emphasis>eyes</emphasis>;</line>

<line paraID="7"><tab/><tab/>lest they see with their <emphasis>eyes</emphasis>,</line>

<line paraID="8"><tab/>and hear with their <emphasis>ears</emphasis>,</line>

<line paraID="9">and understand with their <emphasis>heart</emphasis>, and convert, and be healed.</line>

</stanza>

<citationInfo>

<para paraID="10">—<scriptureRef book="isa" chapter="6" verse="10">Isaiah 6:10</scriptureRef></para>

</citationInfo>

</poetry>

Display Sample

Make the heart of this people fat,

and make their ears heavy,

and shut their eyes;

lest they see with their eyes,

and hear with their ears,

and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

—Isaiah 6:10

Notes

Avoid using tabs in situations where formatting can be inferred from the elements (for example, labels in lists).

This element is empty in valid ldsXML documents. When an ldsXML document is transformed for print production in InDesign, a Unicode tab space character is inserted into this element. Upon export from InDesign, all tab spaces in the document are deleted, and tab elements are left empty.

See Whitespace handling standards in InDesign for more information.

See Also

Marking in Microsoft Word

Enter the XML form (<tab/>) directly using the xmlChar character style. All other tabs will be stripped on conversion.