How to specify a NON-PROPORTIONAL FONT

[nitroman]

How can I specify that I wish a post, or a portion of it, to use font COURIER NEW, size 10? That would allow me to vertically align information, making the information neat, and therefore easy for all to understand & use.

[inkitin]

Nitroman

Not sure if this will work but let's give it a try !!

[font=courier new]How does this look to you?[/font]

Hmmmm that didn't work !!

Try again

How about this?
Then this?
and so on?

Is that OK?

It'll only let me do Verdana

I suppose you could always make it bold or italic

[GeoffSmith]

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WWWiiiWWW
iiiWWWiii

[inkitin]

Inkitin suitably put in his place !!

[GeoffSmith]

Or Iii has also learned a new skill (as have I)!

• A
• B
• C

1. A
2. B
3. C

1. A
2. B
3. C

I can do lists as well now!

[dapinky]

Is it just me that's lost??????

Am I the only one who hasn't got a clue???????

[nitroman]

Is it just me that's lost??????

Am I the only one who hasn't got a clue???????

Any two lines of text with the same number of characters in each line in a monospace typeface should display as equal in width, while the same two lines in a proportional typeface may have radically different widths. This occurs because wide glyphs (like those for the letters W, Q, Z, M, D, O, H, and U) use more space, and narrow glyphs (like those for the characters i, t, l, and 1) use less space than the average-width glyph when using a proportional font.

It would really help in displaying columnar information to have the use of fixed-width fonts.

[GeoffSmith]

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Any two lines of text with the same number of characters in each line in a monospace typeface should display as equal in width, while the same two lines in a proportional typeface may have radically different widths. This occurs because wide glyphs (like those for the letters W, Q, Z, M, D, O, H, and U) use more space, and narrow glyphs (like those for the characters i, t, l, and 1) use less space than the average-width glyph when using a proportional font.


[Doug]

so what you're subtly saying Geoff is that he should type

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[nitroman]

Kinda awkward, but better than nuthin'

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