From pycyn@aol.com Sat Jun 16 15:15:26 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 16 Jun 2001 22:15:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 38841 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2001 22:15:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 16 Jun 2001 22:15:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m10.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.165) by mta3 with SMTP; 16 Jun 2001 22:15:26 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m10.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id r.de.161f7b4f (1759) for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 18:15:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 18:15:17 EDT Subject: Re: [flamewar] HTML arcana (was: [lojban] Attitudinals) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_de.161f7b4f.285d3475_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10519 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_de.161f7b4f.285d3475_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 6/15/2001 6:42:38 PM Central Daylight Time, jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU writes: > If you use repeated nbsp to make > fake tables, your viewers will see the columns misaligned since most likely > they will be viewing with a different font, or a different edition of the > same font. A similar comment applies to using empty elements for > vertical spacing. It's the same issue as using repeated spaces and empty > paragraphs in Microsoft Word. You need to use the more complex feature: > tables. Painfully true as I discovered. I also discovered that the automatic doodad > converting Word text to HTML does just that. It also converts a tab at > the beginning of a paragraph into 3 nbsp's. But something *in* HTML would > As noted elsewhere, I strictly started under Eisenhower, but cannot make any machine do much of anything anymore. --part1_de.161f7b4f.285d3475_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 6/15/2001 6:42:38 PM Central Daylight Time,
jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU writes:


If you use repeated nbsp to make
fake tables, your viewers will see the columns misaligned since most likely
they will be viewing with a different font, or a different edition of the
same font.  A similar comment applies to using empty elements for
vertical spacing.  It's the same issue as using repeated spaces and empty
paragraphs in Microsoft Word.  You need to use the more complex feature:
tables.


Painfully true as I discovered.  I also discovered that the automatic doodad
for
converting Word text to HTML does just that.  It also converts a tab at
the beginning of a paragraph into 3 nbsp's.  But something *in* HTML would
not go amiss -- for the ordinary user.

As noted elsewhere, I strictly started under Eisenhower, but cannot make any
machine do much of anything anymore.
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