On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 09:27:49PM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: > > > > But you still haven't answered the other part: how does the MUA or > > terminal keep plain test that is meant by the sender to be aligned > > as he/she typed it? That was a part of the question that needs an > > answer, as it MUST be handled properly or it's broken. So how IS > > that done? > > HTML provides a number of mechanisms for aligning proportional font > text.
None of which actually works very well, at least not easily. It is *very* difficullt to align, for example, columns of figures with a decimal point. You'll find that they're nearly always presented using a fixed width typeface for this very reason. -- Chris Green
