formatted spacing

[EmperorNero]

it's important to have formatted spacing on the programming board since ppl would post their source code their and the lack of formatting makes it hard to read.

pretender originally suggested this:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=245114

 

[Angrymarshmello]

I agree but that would make it easier for the nefs to screw up the board (in the same way with colored text)

 

[Pretender]

I was JUST about to make a thread asking why we can't have formatted spacing. Great minds think alike

 

[EmperorNero]

raging, but we can keep it exclusively to the programming board. most nefs are in off topic.

pretender,

 

[JWMiddleton]

I was trying something the other day and noticed things did not line up in the posting as it does in the editor. Below is a test to show what I found. I had to edit and change my post as it look like crap.

11111 22222 33333 |5 spaces between each # group
.....11111.....22222.....33333.....|Spaces replaced w/dots
ooooo11111ooooo22222ooooo33333ooooo|All three are lined up

The numbers above line up perfectly in the editor. It seems that spaces are reduced to only one between items just like with HTML. Also, the dot is proportional on the display, but not in the editor.

 

[Ladi]

When filling in forms, you generally are using a fixed-width font such as Courier/Courier new. The forums display in a variable-width font (my guess is Arial) most likely for readability, which accounts for spacing/length differences between same-number-of-character-strings.

Also, the HTML standard does not allow for more than one <space> to be displayed, mostly because it is a text markup language and a scripting language: extra spaces need to be defined differently because those spaces could be used for organizing the underlying code.

It's not anything Zuni can really control

~Ladi

 

[sciencewhiz]

I would be possible if Zuni allowed us to use the <pre> html tag or an equivilant.

 

[Gloaras]

Welcome to the world of true type fonts! Not all the letters are the same X and Y dimensions like the courier types.....

 

[Mark R]

But, if you use the HTML <pre> tag, as suggested above, then all characters are the same width/height (just like the courier fonts).

The <pre> tags also allow you to use multiple spaces in continuity. The net result is to make ASCII diagrams and simple tables possible.

I've asked for this several times but have never got a useful comment about it:

Link

 

[office boy]

You got my <pre> vote

 

[Jason Clark]

Sorry iksna fusetalk is in codefreeze no more features for awhile.