I have to laugh at the responses to this one... I've been through this
myself. There is a new tag <@PAD> that was released in SP1. It does
exactly what you're looking for, makes "ascii formatting" very easy.
Remember though, if the end user's email client uses a variable width font,
it will still look like poo. they need to be using a fixed width font like
courier to make it work.
@PAD is documented in a "what's new" pdf file that came with sp1 i believe.
/John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Beverly Voth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Email Action Formatting
> Hello, Steve Smith! On 8/28/2002 1:04 PM -0400, you wrote in whole or
part:
> >Does anyone know of any tricks to use when attempting to format the body
of
> >an email action. I don't want to use HTML as the content type, I need to
> >stay with plain text.
> >
> >What I'm looking for isn't exactly page layout, I just want to position a
> >couple of rows of returned data in columnar format so that one row's data
> >falls immediately below the row above. I've tried using tabs but they
aren't
> >consistent.
> >
> >Any ideas?
>
> Use the old "pad-with-spaces" trick. You probably can get the max-length
of each column before starting. Then your "column" is the data + spaces (=
Padding - length of this data).
>
> Beverly
> 606-864-0041 x2
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