I can't use any excuse, I knew about the <@PAD> tag I just forgot about it. I'll give it a try. I'd almost like to add an option to the new <@EMAIL> tag to 'run out to the client's email app, check to see if they can receive mail in xxx format, give me the results, send the message out in xxx format'. Of course I'd get ticked off if someone did that to me.
Thanks, Steve Smith Skadt Information Solutions Office: (519) 624-4388 GTA: (416) 606-3885 Fax: (519) 624-3353 Cell: (416) 606-3885 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.skadt.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John McGowan > Sent: August 28, 2002 3:11 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Email Action Formatting > > > I have to laugh at the responses to this one... I've been through this > myself. There is a new tag <@PAD> that was released in SP1. It does > exactly what you're looking for, makes "ascii formatting" very easy. > > Remember though, if the end user's email client uses a variable > width font, > it will still look like poo. they need to be using a fixed width > font like > courier to make it work. > > @PAD is documented in a "what's new" pdf file that came with sp1 > i believe. > > /John > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Beverly Voth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 12:29 PM > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Email Action Formatting > > > > Hello, Steve Smith! On 8/28/2002 1:04 PM -0400, you wrote in whole or > part: > > >Does anyone know of any tricks to use when attempting to > format the body > of > > >an email action. I don't want to use HTML as the content type, > I need to > > >stay with plain text. > > > > > >What I'm looking for isn't exactly page layout, I just want to > position a > > >couple of rows of returned data in columnar format so that one > row's data > > >falls immediately below the row above. I've tried using tabs but they > aren't > > >consistent. > > > > > >Any ideas? > > > > Use the old "pad-with-spaces" trick. You probably can get the max-length > of each column before starting. Then your "column" is the data + spaces (= > Padding - length of this data). > > > > Beverly > > 606-864-0041 x2 > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
