Looking at your file, I noticed that the length of your <....> zones, included the brackets, are mostly 12 and sometimes 24, 36 or 48 characters long !

So, assuming that you simply use the Normal text language for your data files, I would do this way :

• Open the Settings - Preferences… Tab Settings dialog

• Select the normal language

• UNCHECK the Use Default value option

• Type 12 in the Tab size option

• Leave the Replace by space option UNCHECKED

• Close the Preferences dialog

Now, let’s suppose that you write the line, below ( it’s just an example, not related to yourexact file contents ! )

<PREDICATE ><OBJECT    ><EVA_TITLE             ><DEVICE    ><COMPLEMENT                        >

and that you have to write, for each of these five columns, three letters, taken in the alphabetical list.

To correctly write these data, according to the previous header line :

• Type the string abc and hit the TAB key, ONCE

• Type the string def and hit the TAB key, ONCE

• Type the string ghi and hit the TAB key TWICE

• Type the string jkl and hit the TAB key, ONCE

• Type the string mno and hit the TAB key, THREE times

To better visualize the TAB characters, use the View - Show Symbol - Show All Characters option !

IMPORTANT :

When ALL your datas will be typed, in your file, according to the above scheme, use the Edit - Blank Operations - TAB to Space option to replace all the TAB characters by the suitable number of SPACE characters ( Thanks to Loreia2 ! )

Et voilà ! From now on, your datas should be aligned, on column 1 , 13, 25, 37, … ( 12*n + 1 )

Best Regards,

guy038