hi, Thanks Anne for this. So, adding to Anne's instructions, follow her same instructions to set the leader type:
* With mouse-keys off. * Navigate to the item labeled "None" to the right of the Alignment style, bring your mouse to that location with VO-cmd-f5. * Turn on mouse-keys. * Go right 52 times either with the "o" key or "6" key on a NumPad. * Press the "i" key or "5" key on a NumPad. * Go down with the "k" key or "2" key on NumPad. Some things to note here are that the first two items will simply say "Text". The first item announced as "text" is the dash or hyphen leader and the second item is the dot or period leader. The third item will announce as underscore or underline. I also noticed that if you create a second tab stop and attempt to change the leader, you may need to use only about 40 rights to activate the menu. You made need to play with this some to get good at it. * Press the "i" key or "5" key on a NumPad to select. * Turn mouse-keys off again. You'll note that the leaders are not announced within the document area even though the leader was applied. To test, you can print your document to pdf and you'll see the leader characters there. Not the best solution, but workable. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Apr 24, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > Hello Tim and all, > > It's almost my bedtime and I've been teaching VoiceOver all day so I'm > exhausted. Anyway, here's the workaround for tab stops. > > To insert a tab stop > * Jump to the Formatter. > * Select layout and interact with the scroll area. > * Go down to Tab stops and expand it with VO-Space. > * Click the Add tab stop button and interact with the table. > * Bring the mouse to the field showing the position of the tab stop and > Double-click using VO-Shift-Space. > * Enter the position at which you want your tab stop to be. > * Interact with the field that says Alignment Left and bring the mouse. > * Turn on Mouse keys. > * Move the mouse right by pressing the letter o on a laptop or the 6 key on > an extended keyboard 52 times then click with the letter i or the 5. > * Move the mouse down the way with either k or 2 until you hear the type of > tab stop you want, then click with i or 5. > * You should now turn Mouse keys off again. > Back in your document, press the Tab key before entering the text to be > aligned on the tab stop. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 24 Apr 2014, at 22:18, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> What it sounds like you're looking for are "leaders". In things like a >> Table of Contents, tabs are set in a manner whereby the Chapter or Section >> title is entered, then leader dots are placed from the end the text over to >> the page number. These dots are automatically placed using something called >> a "leader" or a "fill". The leader can be dots (periods), dashes, >> underscores or other symbols that one may desire. It sounds to me that >> you'd wish to use underscores in this situation so that a solid line would >> be placed from the end of the text to the far right of the text area. What >> you'd normally do here is set a right tab-stop close to the right margin and >> set the underscore as a leader for that specific tab. Now, the tricky part >> here is that tab-stops are not particularly accessible in Pages at the >> moment. In the Formatter, under the Layout pane of the Text formatter, you >> can set the position of a tab but I haven't figured out how to tell it to be >> a right tab and/or to set the Leader. Within the Tab table of the >> formatter, there is the combo-box for each, but I haven't been able to >> manipulate them to change from the default of Left and None. I believe that >> Anne posted some sort of workaround for tabs in Pages a while back but I can >> recall what was suggested. Anne may be able to shed some more light on this >> once the other side of the Atlantic wakes up. So, it's possible in the >> sighted world, I just haven't yet figured out how to make it work in the VO >> world. TextEdit doesn't appear to have this functionality either, at least >> as far as I can tell. >> >> Hope this helps some. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On Apr 24, 2014, at 12:35 PM, Matt Dierckens <matt.dierck...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all. >>> I got a call from a man requesting some training. However he had a question >>> that stumped me and I told him I'd do some research. >>> This guy wants to know if there's a way of putting blank spaces all the way >>> to the end of a right margin. He gave an example of outlines with a >>> sentence starter and then blanks all the way across. If there's a way to do >>> this, please let me know. 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