In message , Richard J.
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Not sure how you constructed that, but the lines are all over the place
on my screen. If you're going to post diagrams like this, please use a
fixed-width font like Courier New when drawing them and avoid using
tabs.

It looked fine here - but you are right in saying that using tabs will
confuse Microsoft newsreaders.

I think you meant something like this (view in fixed width font):

(snip)

Yes, that's pretty much what his original looked like here.

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Paul Terry

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In message , Richard J.
writes

Not sure how you constructed that, but the lines are all over the place
on my screen. If you're going to post diagrams like this, please use a
fixed-width font like Courier New when drawing them and avoid using
tabs.

It looked fine here - but you are right in saying that using tabs will
confuse Microsoft newsreaders.

Using tabs will confuse any newsreader if the user has decided to
change the default tab width because they like it that way.

In the absence of an enforcable Internet standard for tab size using
tabs in a diagram is stupid IMHO.

tim

"Paul Terry" wrote in message
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In message , Richard
J.
writes

Not sure how you constructed that, but the lines are all over the
place
on my screen. If you're going to post diagrams like this, please use
a
fixed-width font like Courier New when drawing them and avoid using
tabs.

It looked fine here

Interesting. What font do you use to display plain text messages, and
what newsreader are you using? I'm using OE (normally with Quote-Fix
but native OE was just the same), and tried Courier New, Arial and Times
New Roman, with equally bad results from all three.

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Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

In message , Richard J.
writes

"Paul Terry" wrote in message
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It looked fine here

Interesting. What font do you use to display plain text messages,

Courier New, 11 point.

and what newsreader are you using?

As it says in my headers: User-Agent: Turnpike/6.05-M

I'm using OE (normally with Quote-Fix
but native OE was just the same), and tried Courier New, Arial and Times
New Roman, with equally bad results from all three.

The difference is probably what OE does with the tabs (here I have tabs
set at the default 10-character spacing). As Tim pointed out, using tabs
in a post can have unpredictable results. My own preferred newsreader
(Turnpike) guards against this warning by the user and then converting
tabs to multiple spaces before posting.

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Paul Terry