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Condolences! I have had similar problems. If any here can shed light on how to insure the reliable equivalent of a tab function I, and, I suspect, rootless2 would love to know. For all I know the html could be amongst those shown under "allowed html" as there is no identification of function available for those to whom it is not "intuitively obvious."

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 04:34:28 PM EST
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migeru generously fixed some of it. but I think the numbers are too ugly for html.

by rootless2 on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 04:40:48 PM EST
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Use <pre></pre> tags for

pre-formatted text

which displays in a monospaced font.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 04:43:22 PM EST
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Do I take it correctly that when I start off with text that will properly display a table in a WP format and place

 at the beginning and

at the end of said table that the tabs, spaces and carriage returns used to generate the table will be preserved? Or should I start with a spreadsheet?

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 05:59:41 PM EST
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Do not use tabs but only spaces and carriage returns to align text. In your word processor, use a monospaced/typewriter font such as Courier, Gothic, or indeed Monospaced.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 06:04:17 PM EST
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We're doing ASCII Art here...

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 06:05:19 PM EST
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WHAT?!?

No Snoopy-lying-on-his-dog-house calendar?

sigh

The Classics are dead. One with Nineveh and Tyre.

by ATinNM on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 06:13:14 PM EST
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LOL! I used Hexadecimal Art to pass my Motorola Exercisor programming class. We had to write a working program in assembly language, but had not been shown drivers for monitors or printers. Most of the other students were old hands and already knew these tricks, but this was my first, (and last) programming course. So I played with the sixteen characters I was given and realized I could write a recognizable "word" thus: F001F00D. So I wrote a program that was: Set Pointer xxxxxxxx, Load Register A F001, Store A, Increment Pointer, Load Register A F00D, Store A, Increment Pointer. There was also something with the counter. Then we used Dump to examine the register and there it was: a register full of foolfood.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 06:18:17 PM EST
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Woops! I forgot to preview and now see that I needed to "neuter" the < pre>< /pre> html. Even a space will do the trick. Fun! Fun! Poco a poco apriendo.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 06:07:02 PM EST
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Have you noted what Migeru says in his comment in the diary?

Migeru:

Please, when copying text from elsewhere into a diary or comment, remember to preview and use HTML formatted instead of Auto-format if necessary, as auto-format will replace meaningless line breaks with <br> tags.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 04:45:08 PM EST
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Ooops!

By breaking the Vow of Silence, giving Knowledge© to the uninitiated, both you and Mig are in big trouble wrt the Secret Masters of HTML.

by ATinNM on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 04:52:25 PM EST
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Re: AIG and Europe (4.00 / 4)

No, I didn't mean it! I promise! It was all lies anyway! I didn't say anything really! NO-o-o-o-ohhh!!!

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 05:00:38 PM EST
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Right Justified Columns: (w/ < pre>< /pre>)
Head1....,Head2....,Head3....,Head4

1 alpha       a         b         c

2 alpha      ab        ab        ab

5 alpha   abcde     abcde     abcde

(without)

Head1....,Head2....,Head3....,Head4

1 alpha a b c
2 alpha ab ab ab
5 alpha abcde abcde abcde

And I copied the "with" table, but deleted "pre-pre" to generate the without table.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 06:49:02 PM EST
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how to insure the reliable equivalent of a tab function

You must use tables.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 05:15:10 PM EST
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Scoop doesn't recognize standard HTML formatting codes?

by ATinNM on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 05:30:30 PM EST
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I'm not sure what you're talking about.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 05:34:32 PM EST
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The ASCII standard has the bit pattern X0001001 as the Control Code for a horizontal tab. I assumed - silly me! - HTML kept the ASCII standards.

Now that I went and looked ... nope.

So ... never mind.

by ATinNM on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 05:58:59 PM EST
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BTW, I find this is a nice HTML reference.

by ATinNM on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 06:04:22 PM EST
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Bookmarked and soon to be studied.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 06:25:57 PM EST
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