Pommie, I understood you to mean outside the code tags, but it was still worth testing.
MrAl
I don't think there is any way to get hyphens, underscores, and such to line up WYSIWYG in a forum. I think the only way is to post an image. I tried to figure out the rgb # for ETO's background so the image looks like text. This is as close as I could get:
View attachment 96580
Maybe Dave will give us the proper hex value.
John
Hi John,
Well there's no problem with the hyphens and other chars, just with the spaces. The spaces are not right. It's like you type a Courier New space (which is a proportional font) and you get a Arial font space instead. It's just nuts too.
Not only that, but it WORKED FINE for years and years, until they switched to this new software which broke this functionality. It's probably easy to fix too.
Just to mention a few details..
Courier New is a proportional font, so everything typed has the same horizontal width. This is often used in programming environments where text lines up vertically because in any lines typed the chars have the same width. I could show countless examples.
MOST other fonts are not proportional, so they produce different widths depending on the character. For example, the capital "M" will be usually fairly wide, while the period "." will be very narrow. That means if you type an M on one line and a dot on the next line, the very next char you type on each line will not line up with the one above or below it because the first char was of a variable width. Fonts that cause this are like Arial, MS Sans Serif, Verdana, Times New Roman, etc.
Now the 'space' character in any of these non proportional fonts is much more narrow then the other characters except maybe small ones like punctuation. For that one font however, Courier New, the space is EXACTLY the same width as the other characters, including the M and the period, because that is the way the font is designed.
Now before the 'new' software, typing a space with Courier New would act just like in any other editor, it would be the same width as the other chars. Once the new software came in, the space now types (and pastes) differently, so that it acts like a non proportional font space would act.
If this space char would be fixed when using the Courier New font, all would be well again.
It's kind of ridiculous when you think about it, because EVERY editor i use does the space correctly, such as Notepad and Wordpad.