Since listserv emails are always plain-text (well, at least in my experience), there's no way for you to control the font used at the other end. All you can send are the text characters; the recipient controls what font is used for plain-text emails.
For just the reasons you're thinking of I tell my client to display plain-text emails in a fixed-spacing font*, so I looked at the below and thought "what formatting issues? Looks fine to me". I don't understand why everyone doesn't do that. * It's Consolas, because it's the only one I see that slashes zeroes. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. -Richard Feynman */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Don Johnson Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 09:04 Good morning! I am trying to do what I thought was a simple SORT Copy function to create some commands from an input file, but I am being thwarted by embedded blanks in my line. Here is the input (Sorry for the formatting issues, I am not sure how to post fixed-space text): ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8----+----9----+- > 400 B400-DATABASE 1001 BRN B400-BRANCH-BLDG > (1001) T > 400 B400-DATABASE 3 HST B400-TRANHIST > (0003) H > 400 B400-DATABASE 4 HST B400-TRANHIST > (0004) H > 400 B400-DATABASE 5 HST B400-TRANHIST > (0005) H ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
