In the forums, the inability to have postings preserve spacing can be very awkward, for instance when trying to post a table or an example program.
Would it be possible to have a mode which deleted trailing whitespace on each line, but didn't mess with leading or intermediate space? For instance with a [hardspace] command, which could work like:
Originally posted by iamatiger In the forums, the inability to have postings preserve spacing can be very awkward, for instance when trying to post a table or an example program.
Would it be possible to have a mode which deleted trailing whitespace on each line, but didn't mess with leading or intermediate space? For instance with a [hardspace] command, which could work like:
[courier]It can be solved with an alternative typeface. Like courier. Then every character would take up equal space.
There is a tag in the html codes (I think, or is it [typeface]?) that looks like this that gives the wanted result.[/courier]
Originally posted by iamatiger In the forums, the inability to have postings preserve spacing can be very awkward, for instance when trying to post a table or an example program.
Would it be possible to have a mode which deleted trailing whitespace on each line, but didn't mess with leading or intermediate space? For instance with a [hardspace] command, which could work like:
Originally posted by orangutan The HTML tag we need here is the <pre>. In the same way that [b][ b] gives us the <b> tag we should have a [pre] to give us the <pre> tag.
The best you can get at the moment is by using the [ quote ] tag - like this -
[ quote]
[quote].....If............The
.....Dots........Were
.....Spaces.....These
.....Rows........Would
.....Still.... ...[text shortened]... All it does is provide some indenting (can be nested) - but it's no good for table formatting.[/b]
Thanks Orangutan. [ quote ]sort of works, but inserts an irritating automatic empty line. I didn't know about the html tag <pre> before, but that is indeed what we need, I've recommended your post.
Originally posted by FabianFnas [courier]It can be solved with an alternative typeface. Like courier. Then every character would take up equal space.
There is a tag in the html codes (I think, or is it [typeface]?) that looks like this that gives the wanted result.[/courier]
The problem is that multiple consecutive spaces are turned into 1 space automatically by the conversion into HTML, irrespective of what font they are in.
Originally posted by iamatiger .....If............The
.....Dots........Were
.....Spaces.....These
.....Rows........Would
.....Still..........Line
.....Up