I looked at this message in Thunderbird and the columns aligned just fine. I checked the Thunderbird config and there is a checkbox for "Use fixed width font for plain text messages"
Similarly, Outlook seems to display plain-text messages with a fixed- width font, but I'm not really an Outlook user so I don't know where that's configured. Gmail, on the other hand, seems to use variable fonts. I found an option to default to fixed font but the columns in the quoted message still didn't line up. I guess that option is for composing messages? I suppose most people use Gmail and other web-based email now-a-days and maybe the others are similarly poorly behaved. > > It would be nice to be able to do it in 2 columns, like: > > > > Table 1 Table 1 > > N: Geo Washington (host) N: Geo Washington (host) > > E: John Adams E: James Monroe > > S: Tom Jefferson S: J.Q. Adams > > W: James Madison W: Andrew Jackson > > > > > > You viewing it in mutt inside a terminal window probably see two > > nicely aligned columns. But readers using thunderbird, outlook, > > etc. would not because of the proportional spacing. -- Hokan Bicyclist Sysadmin
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