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Dodi Schultz
July 8th, 2005, 09:01 AM
[Re the "box" around the word]

>> If I view with 'fixed' font it looks fine. Otherwise, the second,
>> third and fourth lines have compressed spaces that prevent the right
>> edge of the box being aligned.

Thanks, Chris. I now understand; that would explain Frances's description
as well.

--DS

Frances Wetzstein
July 8th, 2005, 09:45 AM
Sorry, Dodi. There are = signs in between the @ signs on the three
sides that line up. The others have disappeared. (g)

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[Re the "box" around the word]

>> If I view with 'fixed' font it looks fine. Otherwise, the second,
>> third and fourth lines have compressed spaces that prevent the
right
>> edge of the box being aligned.

Thanks, Chris. I now understand; that would explain Frances's
description
as well.

--DS

Bill Hirst
July 8th, 2005, 10:53 PM
It's all smushed up on the left in the original post (reading on
Yahoo!), but a nice rectangle when I look at the quote. Curious.

> @=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@
> @ @
> @ POUSSETTE @
> @ @
> @=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@=@
>
Of course, everyone knows a poussette is a small animal that
goes "meow."

(nad)

-
Bill

Bill Hirst
July 8th, 2005, 11:15 PM
--- In coryphaeus (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, "Bill Hirst" <billhirst@c...> wrote:
> It's all smushed up on the left in the original post (reading on
> Yahoo!), but a nice rectangle when I look at the quote. Curious.


And all smushed up again when the message is posted. It's just one more
thing about computers that I fail to understand.

-B

Paul Keating
July 9th, 2005, 01:38 AM
>> a nice rectangle when I look at the quote

Let me guess. You are using Firefox. It is set to show quotes in a different font. That font is a fixed-width font.

I had to start using CIS Webview routinely when I went broadband so I've been looking at smushed up boxes, sat-upon crowns, and mangled results tables for ages. I tried ever so hard to devise a way to make this stuff look properly spaced in Webview and still be readable in Tapcis, and failed miserably.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague
52N02 4E19



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Bill Hirst
July 9th, 2005, 07:44 PM
--- In coryphaeus (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, Paul Keating <coryphaeus@p...> wrote:

> Let me guess. You are using Firefox. It is set to show quotes in a
different font. That font is a fixed-width font.

Nope, bloated old Internet Explorer under WinXP. It's probably a long
ago forgotten setting that crams as much text as possible in those tiny
little windows (tm) by using tiny proportional fonts. After all, the 80-
column punchcard is utterly useless these days, and anything "new" has
to be "different."

-Bill