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Random fact: Microsoft PowerPoint inserts a vertical tab when you press Shift+Enter, e.g. to start a new line inside the current bullet point.
by 1wd 11y ago
Random fact: Microsoft PowerPoint inserts a vertical tab when you press Shift+Enter, e.g. to start a new line inside the current bullet point.
- err4nt 11y agoI always understood this functionality as 'soft return' versus a 'hard return'. One adding a line break (like <br> in HTML) and the other starting a new paragraph (like <p>) with its own indent/margin/spacing rules.
- chias 11y agoIs that a vertical tab, or a line break? It seems much more consistent with the behavior of <br> in HTML documents (i.e. new line but not new paragraph/bullet/whatever).
- JonathonW 11y agoIn the XML PowerPoint format (.pptx), it's a line break (inserts an <a:br> element between the two lines). There's no vertical tab character saved out to disk (who knows what PowerPoint does internally, though). I don't have the time or the initiative to figure out what the old .ppt format does here.
- 1wd 11y agoI don't know about internally or disk formats. The vertical tab turns up when copying and pasting to a text editor though.