Anyway to simulate a table, i.e. to line things up?

[progree]

6. Yup, I used that (or something like that) in the DU3 era until the hack

[div style="font-family:monospace; font-size:1.1em; white-space:pre;"]line 1[br]line 2[br]line 3[br]etc.

Did that leave a blank line between every line?

This is what I used to use -- I had to prepend every line with that huge tag and end each line with the square-bracketed {/div}:

[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.37em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] v-last Bush budget was FY 2009 (all figures are actuals, not budgeted) {/div}
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.37em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Fiscal Year{/div}
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.37em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] 2,983 3,518 3,457 3,603 3,537 3,454 Total Outlays, $Billions {/div}
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.37em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] (450) (1,413) (1,294) (1,300) (1,087) (680) Surplus (deficit), $Billions {/div}
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.37em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] (3.1) (9.8) (8.7) (8.5) (6.8) (4.1) Surplus (deficit), % of GDP {/div}

[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.37em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] 2014 2015 Fiscal Year{/div}
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.37em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] 3,504 3,688 Total Outlays, $Billions
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.37em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] (483) (439) Surplus (deficit), $Billions {/div}
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.37em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] (2.8) (2.5) Surplus (deficit), % of GDP {/div}

When building the table in Word, I just made the huge tag character width one and colored it, so it wasn't so huge and distracting.