/t (tab) broken in 2019.1.0f2?

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Upgraded this morning, and in a TextMeshProUGUI where I use \t tab characters to align columns, the tab width seems to have gone from what looked like around 5 characters, to maybe 50.

I’m creating the text like this:

string outText = "id     state coOrds\tTime\n";

In a fresh project, if I paste the text from the inspector gui it works as expected. I can’t see any difference between the settings.

Editing the text I confirmed the tab function is working as expected, just at a much larger width.

Is it possible to view or change the tab size?

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Font Assets now have a field for Tab Width which is defined by the font file and also the existing Tab Multiple. These two values now factor into the behavior of Tab.

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Most likely your old font assets (which didn’t have this Tab Width) value will need adjustment.

Let me know if that resolves your issue.

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Hello! I also just upgraded to 2019 and I am now getting a crash bug in TMPro. When I try to set a TextMeshProUGUI object’s .font member in code, I get this:

ArgumentException: An item with the same key has already been added. Key: 0
System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary2[TKey,TValue].TryInsert (TKey key, TValue value, System.Collections.Generic.InsertionBehavior behavior) (at <1f0c1ef1ad524c38bbc5536809c46b48>:0) System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary2[TKey,TValue].Add (TKey key, TValue value) (at <1f0c1ef1ad524c38bbc5536809c46b48>:0)
TMPro.TMP_FontAsset.InitializeDictionaryLookupTables () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.textmeshpro@2.0.0/Scripts/Runtime/TMP_FontAsset.cs:584)
TMPro.TMP_FontAsset.ReadFontAssetDefinition () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.textmeshpro@2.0.0/Scripts/Runtime/TMP_FontAsset.cs:602)
TMPro.TMP_FontAsset.get_characterLookupTable () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.textmeshpro@2.0.0/Scripts/Runtime/TMP_FontAsset.cs:139)
TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI.LoadFontAsset () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.textmeshpro@2.0.0/Scripts/Runtime/TMPro_UGUI_Private.cs:539)
TMPro.TMP_Text.set_font (TMPro.TMP_FontAsset value) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.textmeshpro@2.0.0/Scripts/Runtime/TMP_Text.cs:140)

But it was working fine as of Unity 2018.3.9f1.

Any idea what that might be ?

Thanks,
Andrew

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Tab width was 486! Thanks. I did search the docs but found no mention of this anywhere.

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Can you submit a bug report with the project so I can take a look?

What version of TMP were you using prior to the upgrade?

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Hi there,
I got the same problem here.
I was upgrading from Unity 2018.3 to Unity 2019.1

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That did the trick for me, too. The font asset tab size was 289. Setting it to 10 solved the problem. Thanks.