[RTTY] my LoTW stats

[Richard Ferch]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 at 07:55:48 -0400, Jim Reisert said:

>At 10:59 PM 9/9/2004, FireBrick wrote:
>I'm sorry guys, I don't understand this.
>
>I most certainly did pick a fixed width font.
>
>And....if I go to the url via my browser, I see all the rows, and columns 
>in perfect alignment.
>(except the September as I had an extra tab I think)
>
>
>Both Firefox 0.9 and IE display the same way, on both my home and work 
>PCs. Maybe the font you chose is NOT installed on everyone's PCs, and 
>therefore the browser defaults to a non-fixed-width font that it can display.
>
>If you use the <PRE> and </PRE> tags as someone else requested here, it 
>should look fine.

I'm sure you are right, Jim. On this PC, Explorer displays the data in 
Times Roman, which makes it look awful. I just checked, and I don't happen 
to have Andale Mono installed on this relatively new PC. Apparently Andale 
Mono doesn't come with the base distribution of Windows.

I believe the <PRE> tag will force IE to display the info in a monospaced 
font (probably Courier New on a bare-bones system), but IMHO there is a 
much better way to ensure that tabular information like this lines up 
properly, and that's to create it as a table in the first place. Whether 
you are using MS Word or an HTML editor, just create a table (look for 
Table on the menu bar in Word or FrontPage) and enter the data into the 
table. The software will figure out the HTML tags for you, and the info 
will display properly aligned on anyone's computer regardless of whether 
you use a monospaced font or not.

73,
Rich VE3IAY