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ST_PTabRelativeTo (Absolute Position Tab Positioning Base)

Specifies the possible extents which may be used to calculate the absolute positioning of this positional tab character.

[Example: Consider a positional tab stop in a WordprocessingML document that should have a resulting position that is centered on the text margins, ignoring both any custom tab stops and any text indents on the paragraph. This positional tab stop would be defined as follows:

<w:ptab w:relativeTo="margin" … />

The relativeTo attribute specifies that this absolute position tab stop shall be relative to the margin. end example]

This simple type's contents are a restriction of the XML Schema string datatype.

The following are possible enumeration values for this type:

Enumeration Value

Description

indent (Relative To Indents)

Specifies that the absolute positioning of the tab shall be relative to the indents.

margin (Relative To Text Margins)

Specifies that the absolute positioning of the tab shall be relative to the margins.

 

Referenced By

ptab@relativeTo2.3.3.22)

The following XML Schema fragment defines the contents of this simple type:

<simpleType name="ST_PTabRelativeTo">

   <restriction base="xsd:string">

   <enumeration value="margin"/>

   <enumeration value="indent"/>

   </restriction>

</simpleType>