> This works if the person who set up the table used a
> mono-spaced font.
> If they used a variable-spaced font to compose the table,
> they will have
> put different numbers of spaces in the same part of different
> lines to
> make the columns line up on their screen. The result in
> plain text will
> not be aligned. I learned this the hard way when I first joined the
> list. I posted a couple of tables I had composed and was
> distressed to
> see how bad, virtually unreadable, they looked on the list. Now I
> compose tables in fixed width.
I think there are just too many variations which won't work. How about
posting tables comma separated so that they can be imported into a
spreadsheet for viewing ?
...Wayne
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