Concern while Posting Dynasty Thread..
 

Those of you familiar with Dynasty Postings should know what I'm talking about.

Remember this..


"To make columns appear clearly add (pre)(font) face=courier) at the beginning and (/pre)(/font) at the end.

Note: I have used () as well as [] at the new FOFC. Neither has worked..


On the old FOFC Board this would work maginificently with everything lining up neatly and properly.

But... here at New FOFC, I'm having some issues with this. Basically when using this, you get huge amounts of blank space between each individual line.

Scroll down through this thread and check out the Team Roster and then the Boxscores from individual games. See how much space it is using in comparison to the rest of the writeup? Strange.. I've tinkered with this quite a bit and can't figure out how to fix this.

Anyone with more knowledge than me regarding this who could figure this issue out, I would appreciate the heck out of you.

Thanks!!

Yeah, I had the same problem with my dynasty...

Quikshot, if you want to say for instance allign the League Standings up nice and pretty on your thread, do this..


At the very beginning of the standings add one of these..

(pre)(font face=gothic) Note: You can use any font you wish, I just chose Gothic for mine.


..And following the last of the Standings, add this..

(/pre)(/font)


Note: Replace () Brackets with <> these and it will work.

If you're copying and pasting from a .txt file, use the {code} and {/code} tags (change {} to [ ])....everything should line up then.

That was it.. [color=dark-blue]THANKS SIMMS!!![/color]

is it possible you could give us a rundown on the code changes? or is there some sort of brief guide you could post or give us a link to?

Well, using (code) & (/code) replace ()'s with []'s makes all of the .txt files, etc., line up nice & neat as was the case with the (pre)(/pre) action.. replace ()'s with <>'s.. on the former FOFC Boards..

As for the rest of the vB Codes, here's the link ... It is also available by clicking the HELP button next to vB Code that is listed when you are creating any post.

Thanks

Please reiterate more precisely, someone. I used the "code", "/code" and, yes it lined-up, but it indented like a quote. What did I add or not add that I should have to make it look like it used to w/out the spaces in between.

Thanks

mrushh

Instead of code and /code, type this.

<pre><font face="courier">
block of text you want to appear
</font></pre>

sabotai,

That is what I was using, but it kept skipping lines between each entry so as to take up twice as much room as needed.
However, I used "size=2". Could that be the culprit? Thanks for responding.

2002 GRADES

Team Performance:        10/100

Academic Performance    53/100

Recruiting Performance   12/100

TV Revenue                     75/100

Alumni Donations            36/100

Attendance at Stadium    69/100



Overall                             39/100

This mess was created using the codes:
{pre}{font face="courier" size=2}
and
{/font}{/pre}
except that < and > took the place of { and }.

That would have worked fine on the old board.

2002 GRADES



Team Performance: 10/100
Academic Performance 53/100
Recruiting Performance 12/100
TV Revenue 75/100
Alumni Donations 36/100
Attendance at Stadium 69/100

Overall 39/100



The above was created using the codes
{code}{font face="courier" size=2}
and
{/font}{/code}
except that < and > replaced { and }

You'll see there are no longer lines between the lines, but the spacing is wrong (though in a different way).

What else do I need to do, chaps?

2002 GRADES



Team Performance: 10/100
Academic Performance 53/100
Recruiting Performance 12/100
TV Revenue 75/100
Alumni Donations 36/100
Attendance at Stadium 69/100

Overall 39/100



This was created using exactly the same code as the one immediately above, except that 'size=2' was removed from the first code.

You'll see it makes no difference at all (at least, not on my screen).

So that can't be the answer :mad:

Sorry - tried something else but it failed again :(

Maybe we need the default text option when you are typing up a note to be couriers, because all letters are the same width, which makes lining up tables easier. With other fonts, you end up trying to line things up, only to find out that they don't line up when put in a table.

See how nice this is. That's because the letters are
all the same width, and each letter lines up with the one above it.


This one, on the other hand, does not have all letters the same width,
as you can see by having two lines of text next to eachother.

2008 Season Standings, Big Ten


Well, that worked in a way but it's disappointing in another.

FIRST it prints much wider than I wanted.
SECOND it's a table that's been printed to file. My failures above were manually created documents.
And THIRD the word "code" appears in a silly place.

So we have a code that sort of works for tables printed to file, but not for manually created tables.

Oh - the code. Right. It's a bit complex to translate.

First line

{code}@font face="courier" size=1%

Last line

{/font}@/code%

Replace { and } with [ and ] and replace @ and % with < and >.

Does anyone have a better way, especially for manually created documents? Please? Pretty please? :confused:

That's pretty much what I ended up with as well Roberto. It looks like the best we may be able to do with this particular board.

Overall, it's not bad, except for the word "Code" up top..

Some experiments. Bear with me.

The College Years
Roster, Scout Overview


List printed to file, opened in wordpad and saved as word document. Looks fine. This was the code:

First line

{code}@font face="courier" size=1%

Last line

{/font}@/code%

Replace { and } with [ and ] and replace @ and % with < and >.

But it's too darn wide. Try editing the headings (same code)

The College Years
Roster, Scout Overview



That looks good - the content is narrower, though the lines top and bottom are still full width.

Now lets edit the information - add some fake improvement date (manually). Again, same code.

The College Years
Roster, Scout Overview



That works too.

Now, does anyone know how to remove those soppy lines at top and bottom?

Following from the message above - does it make a difference to the width of the top and bottom lines if the message only contains the narrower version of the table?

Codes as before.

The College Years
Roster, Scout Overview


Well, up to a point. It's still too wide, but not as wide.

There may be a further partial solution.


The above was a manually created document but using tabs, not the space bar EXCEPT for the DT

Code as before

First line

{code}@font face="courier" size=1%

Last line

{/font}@/code%

Replace { and } with [ and ] and replace @ and % with < and >.

Now, try the same code on a similar list which was manually created using the space bar (and lined up, as best I could, in this box)


Oh - I didn't expect that to work, but it did!!!

Let's try it again on another manually created list which was created using the space bar


er ... back to the drawing board


:(