How do you force evenly spaced fonts on this message board if you are trying to show some ascii art? I only see variable width fonts on the drop down menu. I would think Courier New would work, but it doesn’t seem to.
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Incidentally, my original draft reply had “[ CODE ] … [ /CODE ]”. I used preview to check that it worked, and because all the message apart from the part in
[QUOTE]
tags and the part in
tags was in capitals, the vBulletin system converted the whole message into lower case. I think that's a bug, but perhaps not one worth worrying about.I’ve had that happen to me, too. All capitalized gets converted to all lower case. Definitely a bug.
ETA: Had to delete the brackets from your “quote”, else the coding is screwed up. Not a bug, but a good way to mess with other posters trying to quote you! 
hey this works
cool. 
One tip that I use is to click the toolbar quote button. Then change the word QUOTE to CODE. That way I know all the syntax is correct. I also do that for spoiler tags. Saves a lot of hassle.
Is it just spaces that cause trouble? Try a substitute like & # 1 6 0 ;
(I’ve left spaces in that code to display it.)
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Do NOT preview the message, as preview changes the space codes to spaces, then they disappear. :smack:
And you can’t see what I did with “Quote” either, as that blows the “real” spaces away. :smack:
Trust me; I just used the six keystrokes “& # 1 6 0 ;” for each space.
This is what we software professionals call “a feature.”
Thanks guys. That works!
it’s a bug when it changes user names and quoted text!
[quote=“Giles, post:3, topic:611348”]
[noparse]Incidentally, my original draft reply had “[ CODE ] … [ /CODE ]”. I used preview to check that it worked, and because all the message apart from the part in
It’s not a bug, it’s to prevent people from typing in a long post and SHOUTING the whole time. IIRC.
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Thanks septimus, but that is a real pain in the fucking ass.
By the way, you know that “collapsing” whitespace is a feature of HTML, right?
example:
take this simple HTML document
<html>
<body>
<p>a b</p>
</body>
</html>
i.e. copy and paste the code above into a text document, save it as x.html, and open x.html in your browser. You will only see one space between the a and the b. The only way to get around that is to use non-breaking spaces, as septimus has said.
From HTML Documentation:
CSS white-space Property
value: normal
description: Sequences of whitespace will collapse into a single whitespace. Text will wrap when necessary. This is default
One of the issues with the code box is that it has a maximum height, which makes it impractical for larger pictures. It’s only 31 lines on my screen, and it starts throwing in scrollbars after that. There may also be a maximum width, but I’m not sure about that.
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I could’ve sworn that there was some other tag that let you display preformatted text as-is, but I can’t remember the specifics.
At the risk of being tiresome, I’ll try to clarify again. I think it’s fine when a message like:
I'M SHOUTING HERE
gets converted to:
i'm shouting here
What is the problem is when the conversion applies to parts of the message that aren’t parts of the problem, e.g., when
[QU**OTE=Arnold Winkelried;14726699]... It's not a bug, ...
[/QUOTE]
IT'S A FEATURE
get’s converted to:
[qu**ote=arnold winkelried;14726699]... it's not a bug, ...
[/quote]
it's a feature
The “A” and “W” in the user name, and the “I” in “It’s not a bug” should not be converted to lower case.
agreed! (except for the extra apostrophe in “get’s”)
Since this is a question about the Board, moved from GQ to ATMB.
samclem, moderator
Man, I spend all that time getting the coding on that message right, and I manage to miss that extra apostrophe :smack: