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In lugnet.space, "Tom McDonald" <radiotitan@spamcake.yahoo.com> writes:
> > Typical Population/Staff Amount
> > Large and/or
> > Varied <---------------- Few and Specialized ---------> Unmanned
> >
> > base port post outpost relay*
> > station waystation depot colony terminal
> > city terminal platform*
>
> Yuck! I forgot that Lugnet substitutes spaces for tabs made with ^I.
Nope, it doesn't! Tabs are actually preserved. If you do a "view source"
on this...
http://www.lugnet.com/space/?n=87
...you'll see that tabs are actually output correctly as "	" HTML entity
sequences. It's actually your browser which is converting the tabs to
spaces, but it's also an artifact of using a variable-width font (whatever
your default is, usually Times) rather than <PRE></PRE>.
However, if you simply click the "View Raw Message" link in the upper-right,
it brings you here:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/raw.cgi?lugnet.space:87
where you can see the exact whole message with a MIME type of "text/plain".
The reason a variable width font is used for messages rather than
<PRE></PRE> is not for beautification of the messages, but to ensure that
they fit on the screen. The default monospace font on most browsers is a
really really wide Courier, and 80 characters don't even fit in 640-wide
window.
> It doesn't show up that way in the web interface message editing window
> though.
I think this depends on how your browser renders the <TEXTAREA> tag.
Sorry about the confusion, in any case...
--Todd
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| (...) Yuck! I forgot that Lugnet substitutes spaces for tabs made with ^I. It doesn't show up that way in the web interface message editing window though. Oh well, do visit the website cuz that's much better lookin. (see prev post) -Tom McD. (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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