simple formatting possibilities

[Hokan]

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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