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

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