At 3:56 PM -0500 12/30/97, Adam Bailey wrote: >On 12/30/97 1:10 PM, David Mayerlen <[log in to unmask]> wrote... > >>Can anyone think of a solution so that we can send out tables of numbers >>and ensure that the columns will all line up? We thought about using html >>but many email packages cannot read html properly. >Below is a chart which shows our monthly bottom-line for 1997: >(best if viewed in a monospaced font) > >January $5.1M >February $4.3M >March $8.7M Note that these tables are much easier to generate with tabs, but tabs don't work (consistently or even at all) for everyone. When I send out occasional webserver statistics, I lay them out in BBEdit with tabs set to 20 columns or so, and then use the "Detab" command, which converts tabs to the appropriate number of spaces; your text editor may have a similar feature. Chris Pepper -- Chris Pepper | National Audubon Society: Web & List Manager 212 979 3092 | <http://www.audubon.org/staff/pepper/>