Gamer
2003-06-24 04:52:15 |
Spacing in Problems
In the most recent problem (Leapfrog), DJ spaced out everything evenly with extra spaces and such... I have been unsuccessful when doing that, extra spaces between things just get deleted. Plus, things don't line up right for me.
Three Spaces Between Words
One Space Between Words
Both of these would only have 1 space
WWWWW|
-----|
IIIII|
These would all have different | stopping places. |
Gamer
2003-06-24 04:53:59 |
Re: Spacing in Problems
It looks fine when typing it.
QQQQQ|
WWWWW|
#####|
~~~~~|
[[[[[|
*****|
+++++|
But when you post it it looks all wierdo |
friedlinguini
2003-06-24 05:03:58 |
Re: Spacing in Problems
That's because the text entry fields use a monospaced font. Also, HTML treats all strings of whitespace as a single space for plain text. Try using the <tt> or <pre> tags. |
DJ
2003-06-24 12:32:50 |
Re: Spacing in Problems
Put things inside <pre> tags like this:
<pre>
word word
word (space) word
etc..
<lt;/pre>
Also, to put extra spaces inside normal text, hitting the space bar more than once in a row, or at the beginning of a line, will be deleted. You can type in between words(word word shows up as word ) for the extra spaces.
(Now let's hope everything shows up the way I want it to..) |
Gamer
2003-06-24 13:20:17 |
Re: Spacing in Problems
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Gamer
2003-06-24 13:21:52 |
Re: Spacing in Problems
All of them looked like the top one when formatted, with 1 enter between each. |
DJ
2003-06-24 19:56:31 |
Re: Spacing in Problems
I'm assuming those were <pre>, <tt>, and nothing, in that order...
<pre> (pre-formatted text) will preserve your spacing and alignment in a fixed width font
<tt> (typewriter text) will display a fixed width font, but you will still lose extra spaces |
levik
2003-06-25 02:02:44 |
Re: Spacing in Problems
TT works better in comments and forums, because the site's code turns all returns into BR tags (this causes PRE text to look double-spaced in these areas) - while TT does not handle multiple spaces, you can easily compensate for using non-whitespace characters for padding:
___123
_33451
____33 |
