posting tables of numbers

[glnc222]

Could not get the text entry system to show aligned tables of numbers with multiple spaces between columns, and resorted to rows of dots to format. It seems to compress spacing. Am I missing an available method? These systems not my forte.

[mfortuna]

I use this method on a different forum and it works fine.

<left bracket>code<right bracket>

table

<left bracket>/code<right bracket>

<foo> represents a special character

[glnc222]

not here:

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"code" tabe on editing bar   1.
                           puts in a  box    2.
                                   like this    3.
-- above entered right justified...

[mfortuna]

The code tag maintains whitespace. When you tried to align columns using the space character, it comes out more narrow than a regular character. You ended up putting in way too many spaces.

One easy method it use a fixed/monospaced font in a text editor like word and then copy and paste the text into the reply window. I used "Courier New" font in Word 2007 to align the following text.

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"code" tabe on editing bar   1.
            puts in a  box   2.
                 like this   3.
-- above entered right justified...

[glnc222]

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courier new in wordpad     1.    2.
works like this            2.    3.
pasted into post editor online.  4.

even though appears in the post editor like this:
courier new in wordpad 1. 2.
works like this 2. 3.
pasted into post editor online. 4.
Fascinating.

[mfortuna]

Very strange. In my earlier post I put the code keyword all by itself on the first line and when I try to edit all the whitespace is lost.
Here is a version with the code keyword and ""code" tabe on editing bar 1." together on the first line

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"code" tabe on editing bar   1.
            puts in a  box   2.
                 like this   3.
-- above entered right justified...

[glnc222]

Not following this, hard to describe. Works making the table in wordpad with the fixed spacing typewriter font and pasted from the Windows scratchpad into the "code" marker placed by the posting online editor tab atop the text window. The bracket-CODE marks inserted are contiguous to start and end of pasted text. I don't do anything within the code-marked section in the posting editor, has to be edited in wordpad etc. and transferred as a whole.