Posts and tabular alignment

[john_tullamarine]

Need some help and guidance .. search function didn't come up with anything useful.

If I wish to insert some table data (ie a column format) in a PPRuNe post

(a) if I try to space approx by spacebar, the post defaults to stripping all DEC 32 characters beyond the first .. so I am thwarted .. as an example the following character text is so formatted but comes out stripped ..

12345 12 123456
23 2345 234

(b) can't see any other way to achieve the aim

.. presumably the answer is simple (but not so simple that an even simpler brain such as mine can find it) .... any suggestions out there, please ?

regards,

John

[Jhieminga]

My first thought was to use the code tag, but this appears to have been disabled in this installation. Normally this will disable the removal of extra spaces and use a fixed width font. Experimenting with different fonts doesn't do the trick either so that leaves me without an answer I'm afraid.

If you are friendly with any mods, you could ask if the 'code' function could be enabled perhaps.

[DBTL]

It would appear that the TAB char (code 009, just hit the tab key) works as a space the way you want. I checked this through a Notepad file.

[john_tullamarine]

.. tab key takes one out of the edit box and tabs through the buttons .. CTRL tab takes one to the URL box ... ?

If I try setting it up in NotePad and copy/paste, the appearance is OK in the edit box but, as you can see ...

12345 123 12345
12 12 1234

[Saab Dastard]

A somewhat roundabout approach:

Print out the tabular data, scan it and save it as a .jpg, then put the jpg on photobucket or similar and then post the image as a link!



SD

[john_tullamarine]

.. there has to be something more elegant in the system than brute force ...

[CBLong]

Substituting underscores for spaces works, but is still far from ideal...


test
_12345____12___123456
____23__2345______234


The bulletin board software seems to be being quite clever at stripping out what it considers to be redundant spaces and formatting; I also tried enclosing each space character in 'bold' tags, but they were still stripped. I suppose it's attempting to minimise the disk space required to store all these posts...

[DBTL]

Originally Posted by john_tullamarine

.. tab key takes one out of the edit box and tabs through the buttons .. CTRL tab takes one to the URL box ... ?

If I try setting it up in NotePad and copy/paste, the appearance is OK in the edit box but, as you can see ...

12345 123 12345
12 12 1234

You're correct, in fact. It shows ok in the Edit, but not after it's posted.