On Apr 9, 9:06 am, rusi <rustompm... at gmail.com> wrote: > Dunno what you mean by 'out-of-band' > If I set tabstops for a para to say 4-13-25-36 in a wordprocessor, > save the file and look inside, I will find the tuple (4,13,25,36) in > some encoded form. To make this conform to current practices, I should use some length- unit not characters which I had in mind.