Re: How do you solve the problem of spaces?

swe...@aol.com (SweetCdn) wrote:

>So glad you asked, as I have the same problem. Will be waiting for an
>answer.

 I have now received an e-mail reply about this, and it's not good news -

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Pegasus mail uses a proportional font.

eg.
iiii
mmmm

the lines above contain the same number of letters but using a 
proportional font they LOOK different sizes. When you use notepad all the 
letters are of the same size so it looks ok. There is absolutely nothing 
you can do about it. Sorry!

The way that I do it is to do it in Notepad, email to my friend, and then 
get him to cut and paste it back into notepad. Hope this helps.

Lee Clark

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 I assume some e-mail programs use non proportional spacing, which would 
leave ascii art unmutilated. The only advice I can add to the above is to 
find out whether this applies. 

 I can send mail in non proportional spacing using Netscape instead of 
Pegasus, but if the mail reader uses  proportional spacing it will still 
look wrong on receipt.

 Andy.

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