This is something that's bothered me occasionally since I joined AT Forums -- there's no good way to get proportionally-spaced fonts in a post. This makes it difficult to create any sort of ASCII-art diagrams or pictures, and impossible to create any completely accurate ones. It's also very difficult to write out code examples when programming questions come up in Highly Technical or Software, since whitespace (other than line breaks) is totally ignored in regular HTML text.
There has been, as of late, a sometimes-unavailable "attach code" option, which sticks a big, ugly text box into the middle of your post with proportionally-spaced text in it. However, there are two major problems with this:
1) It doesn't always seem to be available.
2) You can only have *one* such box, and it has to be at the *end* of your post.
As far as I can tell, all that's needed to enable this is to have tags that parse into the HTML <code> and </code> tags; just about every browser prints such text in a proportional font (such as Courier). This is a simple addition that would make certain things a lot easier to do.
There has been, as of late, a sometimes-unavailable "attach code" option, which sticks a big, ugly text box into the middle of your post with proportionally-spaced text in it. However, there are two major problems with this:
1) It doesn't always seem to be available.
2) You can only have *one* such box, and it has to be at the *end* of your post.
As far as I can tell, all that's needed to enable this is to have tags that parse into the HTML <code> and </code> tags; just about every browser prints such text in a proportional font (such as Courier). This is a simple addition that would make certain things a lot easier to do.
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