file Preservation of Formatting

01 Jul 2011 17:47 #5700 by KevinM
Why does this software not preserve spacing and formatting? If I type something -- a deck, say -- into Notepad, and I intentionally put more than one space on a line, why does the board's software think it knows better than me and remove all those spaces?

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01 Jul 2011 19:11 - 01 Jul 2011 19:13 #5707 by Ankha
The root is planted deeply into the HTML language that ignores multiple spaces. The board ultimately uses HTML, even if it doesn't necessarily looks so.

There are ways to insert multiple spaces, such as using code
some   space   is required

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01 Jul 2011 19:44 #5708 by jhattara
Ankha's answer pretty much covers it. It's a feature of HTML. All white space between two characters is converted into a single space. Also, as the board font is non-monospaced having a number of spaces in between wouldn't make the columns neatly spaced. Using embedded tables or [code] tags is required to align text into multiple columns.

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01 Jul 2011 19:56 #5709 by KevinM
Ok, thanks for the answers, guys! Seems like it isn't worth the effort on my end to code a post, unless it's absolutely critical.

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06 Jul 2011 20:58 #5969 by salem
use tabs instead of spaces? would that work? or would html stuff that too?

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06 Jul 2011 21:34 #5973 by Pascal Bertrand
You can use these tags:
    Line1
    Line2


This was nested
    tags.

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