----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Holgate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I guess I imagined it then. The JPEG looks like there's something
> between the quotes, more of a " " than a "". I can't exactly match
> the font or size, but screen shooting it and comparing what I can
> type still makes it seem like there's a gap, but not as wide as a
> regular space.

Try setting the font to "Courier New" which is the font for the message
window on the PC. I don't know what it is on the Mac, but the reason for the
extra space is that Courier is fixed-width, and a " is somewhat thinner than
an M. It didn't even look odd to me, so I can only assume the font is
totally different on your system.

Incidentally, one of the reasons we all generally use fixed-width fonts for
code is that you can easily tell that there is no space. Simply look at the
characters immediately above the quotes and you will see that there are
exactly two in the same horizontal space. Since all the characters are
vertically aligned in a grid-like fashion, there cannot be an extra
character between the quotes, or the quotes would span the width of 3
characters.

- Robert

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