Using the Tab key

Many people work with applications like Microsoft Word and this has shaped their pattern of expectations about what is going to happen when pressing tab.

The Tab key is perhaps a key with which people have very different expectations in different situations. In most programs the key is used to skim through options, in text editing the key is most often used to add spacing as for layout, and in lists people expect the depth of the list to be affected.

In Xopus the Tab key does the following: it selects the next selectable item in the document as far as Xopus is able to determine this.

It will also create new rows in tables when in the last cell of the last row of a table, and create deeper nesting in lists. Shift tab can be used also, to un-indent a list.