Setting Tabs

What you need to know first:  Clearing Tabs

See also: Clearing Tabs

(If your country's number system uses, for example, commas instead of full stops or periods for the decimal point, please see the Decimal Tabs Topic.)

Code Used: [stbS:A:P]  (Former Codes [etb...] and [ftb...])

Keystroke: (None at present)

What does it do?

Sets a numbered Tab Stop, Aligned in a particular way, at a specific Position on the braille page.

Where would it be used?

To force a group of characters to a specific position on the line, such as in Columns of figures.  For example:

Desc.      Debit  Credit  Balance
Opening                   $995
Salary            $500    $1495
DBT        $595           $900

Usage in DBT:

[ctb][stb1:l:9][stb2:l:17][stb3:l:25]
Desc.[#1]Debit[#2]Credit[#3]Balance
Opening[#3]$995
Salary[#2]$500[#3]$1495
DBT[#1]$595[#3]$900

Produces in braille:

,desc4  ,debit  ,cr$it  ,bal.e

,op5+                   4#iie

,sal>y          4#ejj   4#adie

,,dbt   4#eie           4#ijj

Let us explain:

The [ctb] Code clears any existing Tab stops. The first [stb sets a left tab at cell 9, the second sets a left tab at cell 17 and the third at cell 25.

The subsequent [# codes tab what follows to the appropriate numbered tab position.