Personal Book Format Magic

I sometimes put my teaching notes into Logos as a PB. Every now and then the most amazing things happens. What should look like the image below, it ends up looking like the image far below. I can copy and paste the content and it all separates out just fine. This seems to happen with tabs, but I can't find anything consistent about why it sometimes happens and sometimes doesn't.

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MJ. Smith

Are you formatting by tabs or table or spaces?

GaoLu

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/801275#Comment_801275

Everything in the example above was spaced with tabs. The lines above contain a combination of tabs and spaces for spacing text. No tables are involved in formatting problems. I am combining 7 documents into one book for a total of about 100 pages. The issue may be connected to multiple tabs on one line. There may be other formatting issues as well, such as changing font size? Auto numbering and indents that get out of whack?

Wish I could troubleshoot this better, but I am smack in the middle of classes the next two weeks.

Attached is a test book with selections of strange formatting. I don't see anything consistent causing the problem. I tried a lot of variations, but this document provides a concise idea.

Edit: After reviewing about 20 locations, some locations contain only tabs (sometimes 5 or more), some contain both spaces and tabs. Some contain only a space. Many contain some oddity such as an extra tab at the end line. Some have no apparent anomaly at all.

6558.Test Document.zip

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/801297#Comment_801297

It worked fine for me after pasted into an existing docx. The 2 Chron reference(s) was wrapped if the panel wasn't wide enough.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/801297#Comment_801297

I get similar results at times with tabs depending on the width of the panel I use when displaying them. I find that size to fit tables give the best results - often omitting any border lines.

GaoLu

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/801424#Comment_801424

Note also that if we select the superimposed text and copy it elsewhere, the tabs all realign properly. The PB captured and kept that tab information from the docx, but did something unexpected with the display within Logos. Incidentally, I am using L6.9.0.0029

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/801449#Comment_801449

Correct - tabs don't line wrap and you don't have control over their width as scaling and panel size change. They process correctly from the point of view of the program - they are not corrupted. They just behave in a way we find unacceptable but the program probably isn't aware of the overlap.

GaoLu

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/801451#Comment_801451

All that makes sense. I am spreading the panel over 2560 pixels on my screen. The original document is A4 size ( a bit narrower than standard 8.5 X 11) and margins are .5" all around. Those may not be considered standard sizes or formats, which may be worth knowing, but I would think Logos could handle displaying that.