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Make7

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2. Not since they disabled most of the HTML.

Reply to progree (Original post)

Mon Jan 29, 2018, 08:04 PM

Jan 2018

As you stated, the only way to get it to look pretty here now is to use another application and post a picture of the results.

I suggest asking in the ATA forum if they would change the software to accept the [pre] tag. That gets you a monospace font and preserves white space (i.e. doesn't collapse multiple spaces into a single space).

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Anyway to simulate a table, i.e. to line things up? [View all] progree Jan 2018 OP

Try... TwistOneUp Jan 2018 #1

Thanks - that will look a lot better than those annoying backquotes progree Jan 2018 #4

Not since they disabled most of the HTML. Make7 Jan 2018 #2

Yup, I remember the [pre] tag with great fondness -- they dropped it years ago when the went progree Jan 2018 #3

You used to be able to do pretty much the same thing with inline style here on DU3. Make7 Jan 2018 #5

Yup, I used that (or something like that) in the DU3 era until the hack progree Jan 2018 #6

It would double space things if you actually hit enter and started a new line - that's why I used [br] tags. Make7 Feb 2018 #7

Finally got the image / Imgur thing to work progree Feb 2018 #8

My table only looks right in FireFox. Make7 Feb 2018 #10

Here's another of my Imgur masterpieces progree Feb 2018 #9

That looks great. Make7 Feb 2018 #11

Thanks much for all the tips in #10 - they were all new to me progree Feb 2018 #12