title: Setting the tab spacing/size visualization for a JavaFX TextArea
body: <p>I am using JavaFX 8 and specifically the TextArea control.  In that control I can enter free form text including "tab" characters.  When I enter a tab, the data is spaced in units of 8 characters.  For example.  In the following, the <code>!</code> character is where I enter a tab:</p>
  
  <pre><code>1234567890123456789012345678901234567890
  !       Data here
  ABC!    Data here
  !!              Data Here
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My puzzle is how to change the tab spacing/sizing for the visual so that instead of the tab size being 8 characters it will only be 4 characters.</p>
  
  <p>To further illustrate, here is an actual screen shot showing tabs in my text area:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MRae1.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>I want to leave the data as containing tab characters and not replace tabs with spaces.</p>
  
  <p>This Stack Exchange question does not apply as it talks exclusively about changing tabs to space:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13773483/javafx-textarea-how-to-set-tabulation-width">JavaFX TextArea: how to set tabulation width</a></p>