[Interest] QTextDocument supports tabstops, but can't insert tabs via html?

[Josh]

Hi all,

QTextDocument supports tab stops. For example QTextOption has setTabs() 
and so you can call QTextDocument::setDefaultTextOption() and also 
QTextBlockFormat has setTabPositions().

Obviously html doesn't support tabs and as multiple whitespaces are just 
ignored.

But is there any way for tabs to be inserted via QTextCursor::insertHtml() 
and/or QTextDocument::setHtml()?

There are features of QTextDocument that are hard to access without 
insertHtml, but this is one feature that as far as I can tell is only 
accessible via QTextCursor::insertText() and 
QTextDocument::setPlainText().

I've been able to mix/match insertHtml() and insertText() to split up my 
insertHtml() calls and insert tabs with insertText(). It sort of works 
(see below), but I'm checking if there is a better solution...

Thanks,

Josh


QStringList tabText = text.split("\t");
text="";
for(int i=0; i<tabText.size(); i++)
{
   myCursor->insertHtml(QString("<span style='%2'>%1</span>").arg(tabText[i]).arg(effect));
   if(i<tabText.size()-1)
     myCursor->insertText("\t");
}