Can't you do this?
Code:Fixed width font Can show off your skills as you please
So yeah, half the point of the CODE tags is to have a fixed width font, but it ain't. Can someone look into this?Code:This font should be fixed width!
It's making it hard to show off my mad SQL skillz.
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Can't you do this?
Code:Fixed width font Can show off your skills as you please
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You mean like so Mos?
Code:12345678 1 4 8 Norbie is lame and without skillz? :P
Change the font to Courier new or something that is fixed width dude
Cheers
Wilbo
Last edited by wilbo666; 07-06-2008 at 10:57 PM.
courier, courier-new (or Monaco on a Mac) are fixed-width fonts - arial is a proportionally-spaced font
Indeed,
Don't use arial I stuffed up with my spaces and arial happend to work (when I first tried courier new thinking it should and it didn't...my memory is crap and I can never remember which fonts are fixed width ), doh! Idiot I am
Cheers
Wilbo
That isn't fixed width. If it was, your 8 wouldn't appear under neath the 5 AND the 6, it would be directly under one, or the other.Originally Posted by wilbo666
Huh? Not sure what you're reading, or what wilbo edited, but they're fixed width now, and were the first time I read the post yesterday too....Originally Posted by Kyosho
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I'm aware you can change the font, but my point remains: the CODE tag should automatically use a fixed-width font, otherwise what's the point of having it at all?
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Originally Posted by Kyosho
Have a look at what happens if you try and do what I did without the code tags
The forum software will automatically remove multiple adjacent 'spaces'...
I.e. on the second line, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 are spaces...
12345678
1 4 8
See how multiple spaces get removed by the forum software when the code tags aren't used?Code:12345678 1 4 8
I do agree with norbie tho, can we make the default font for code tags fixed width? This is such a software based forum so I can see it being important
Cheers
Wilbo
It preserves formatting as well.Originally Posted by Norbie
I had a look at it for an hour yesterday. I don't know if it's the templates or something else. I don't have time to look into it any further. Given there is a workaround, it's not high on any priority list.Originally Posted by wilbo666
Mos.
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problem is also at the client end - many OS's include a version of Courier that include kerning information, proportional spacing, hinting ,etc.
So despite the web server's and browsers' best intentions of using a fixed with font, the OS supplies them with font resource that include proportional spacing and pair-kerning.
Unless the display environment (the browser) ignores that information, selecting a fixed width font via a CSS may result in extra font data being used.
Is what I see...
And I assume this is incorrect from what you're saying...
What I saw the other day was different as well... The numbers on the second line were halfway between 2 numbers above...
This is using Ubuntu 8.04 with Firefox 3 BTW
test 1234567890
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This is what you should be seeing.Originally Posted by Kyosho
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