About the only issue I've found is that tab won't indent selected
lines - it just replaces them with a tab.
Correct -- this is the same as in *any* wysiwig editor, because tab
is an actual text character that resides in the body of text, rather
than a meta-directive to an editor.
Actually, Microsoft Word does indent/outdent if you have multiple lines
selected on Tab. Actually, just checked and it does it if you are at the
beginning of a line as well. Not saying that Word is the *only* WYSIWYG
editor, but it is certainly one of many and might be considered the de
facto standard.
I used to be a technical writer and even when doing long documents in
FrameMaker, Ventura Publisher, etc. I never had a single 'Tab' character
anywhere in the text flow of my documents. All indents, hangs, etc. were
done with styles. Tables were done with... tables.
Tabs as characters aren't all that useful for professional type layout.
Programmers seem split 50/50 if they want tabs/spaces.
At the very least, a strategy for code editing v. text editing would be
useful.
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