Android Question BBCodeView with tabs in text file

[bocker77]

I have a text file that I use the tab key for tabbing. I changed my font in Notepad to use a monospaced font. Everything looks good. I also changed the BBCodeView to use the Monospace font. When I view the text in the app the text after the tabbing are skewed meaning they don't look the same as in Notepad.
Example:
In app
Battleship: 17
Aircraft carrier: 13
Cruiser: 9
In text file
Battleship: 17
Aircraft carrier: 13
Cruiser: 9

Looking through the forum I am not finding any other user that had this problem. I may have overlooked any posts though. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[bocker77]

That didn't work for "In the text File". Sould have previewed it first. I hope you get my drift though because the tab didn't work above.

 

[Erel]

Monospace font will not help due to the way BCTextEngine works. It measures the actual width of each character glyph.

You can use the span tag achieve a table like layout: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...-bbcode-parser-rich-text-view.106207/#content

 

[bocker77]

Thanks I will view that and implement. Don't really like using monospaced fonts anyway.