Acronym Title

Hello,

The reason I`m back again is to pose this question to your expertise in 
the off chance somebody will have a solution (not an alternative). I 
know how badly I need to sit myself down and make the switch to xml (or 
even css), but I won`t do that until I understand html better. Here is 
my question:

Out of curiosity, I`ve managed to create an acronym title for my 28-year 
calendar cycle <http://r.aguirre.home.att.net> which drops down the 
calendar for the month. It wasn`t easy and still needs some minor 
adjustments. The problem i am having is the spacing and the fixed width. 
What would make an alternative method of maintaining a double space to 
seperate characters. html has the habbit of converting double spaces 
into single spaces. I`ve tried using key combinations for em-spacing, as 
well as en-spacing, but that just incurs a weird character into my 
monthly calendar. If you followed the hyperlink to my index page, find 
the link for the current month "July 2005" where there is an acronym 
title attached to it and see for yourself the awkward manner the first 
and second week display.

Another question is whether there is some way to specify that the 
acronym title display in teletype, or any other print that has fixed 
width characteristics. I think that this question is irrelevant because 
it actually does display fixed width and it`s just that double spacing 
glitch that is throwing me off.

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did you try putting your text between <pre> tags?

On 2005-07-11 art...@att.net said:

   > Hello,
   >
   > The reason I`m back again is to pose this question to your
   > expertise in the off chance somebody will have a solution (not
   > an alternative). I know how badly I need to sit myself down
   > and make the switch to xml (or even css), but I won`t do that
   > until I understand html better.

XML and CSS suck.

   > Here is my question:
   >
   > ...What would make an alternative method of maintaining a double
   > space to seperate characters.

That's easy. The HTML designation for a space is  
You can put as many of them in a row as you want.

So to double-space some HTML text, your code would look like:

         This  is  a  test.

   > Another question is whether there is some way to specify that
   > the acronym title display in teletype, or any other print that
   > has fixed width characteristics.
                                             _____ 
       As someone else has already          (((   `\
       told you, enclose the text           _ _`\   )
       you want to be fixed-width           (^  )   )
       within <PRE> ... </PRE> tags          ~-(     )
                                             _'((,,,)))
       If you do that, you won't          ,-' \_/    `\
       have to use the HTML 'space'      (          ,  |
       thingy.                            `-.-'`-.-'/|_|
                                             \     / | |
       All the text after a <PRE>             =()=: / ,'
       tag displays just like a             ,'     \ '
       typewriter...with all the            |       )
       spaces recognized.                   |       |
                                            |__/____|
       That's probably the easiest          ;/  /'
       and the best way to do it.           (  (
                                             \  \ 
       Try it out. Make a test page           \  )
       on your hard drive, then               )\ (
       display it as a local file           _/'_\ \
       in your web browser to see          `--'_/ _) aa
       what it looks like.                    `--'

Annie wrote:
> On 2005-07-11 art...@att.net said:
> 
>    > Hello,
>    >
>    > The reason I`m back again is to pose this question to your
>    > expertise in the off chance somebody will have a solution (not
>    > an alternative). I know how badly I need to sit myself down
>    > and make the switch to xml (or even css), but I won`t do that
>    > until I understand html better.
> 
> XML and CSS suck.

I respectfully disagree.

>    > Here is my question:
>    >
>    > ...What would make an alternative method of maintaining a double
>    > space to seperate characters.
> 
> That's easy. The HTML designation for a space is  
> You can put as many of them in a row as you want.
> 
> So to double-space some HTML text, your code would look like:
> 
>          This  is  a  test.
> 
>    > Another question is whether there is some way to specify that
>    > the acronym title display in teletype, or any other print that
>    > has fixed width characteristics.
>                                              _____ 
>        As someone else has already          (((   `\
>        told you, enclose the text           _ _`\   )
>        you want to be fixed-width           (^  )   )
>        within <PRE> ... </PRE> tags          ~-(     )
>                                              _'((,,,)))
>        If you do that, you won't          ,-' \_/    `\
>        have to use the HTML 'space'      (          ,  |
>        thingy.                            `-.-'`-.-'/|_|
>                                              \     / | |
>        All the text after a <PRE>             =()=: / ,'
>        tag displays just like a             ,'     \ '
>        typewriter...with all the            |       )
>        spaces recognized.                   |       |
>                                             |__/____|
>        That's probably the easiest          ;/  /'
>        and the best way to do it.           (  (
>                                              \  \ 
>        Try it out. Make a test page           \  )
>        on your hard drive, then               )\ (
>        display it as a local file           _/'_\ \
>        in your web browser to see          `--'_/ _) aa
>        what it looks like.                    `--'

<PRE> means preformatted .. text enclosed in <PRE></PRE> tags should not
be formatted differently by the browser and should be displayed in a
fixed-width font.

Still .. not all browsers behave nicely.

I would also suggest enclosing the text in <TT>
<TT> means teletype and the combination of <PRE> and <TT> like this :
<PRE><TT> Look no haaa a a a a  a   a    a      n         d         s
</TT><PRE>
.. should result in all browsers obeying and rendering the text as you
wrote it.

On 2005-07-12 Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen said:

> <PRE> means preformatted .. text enclosed in <PRE></PRE> tags
> should not be formatted differently by the browser and should be
> displayed in a fixed-width font.
>
> Still .. not all browsers behave nicely.
>
> I would also suggest enclosing the text in <TT>
> <TT> means teletype and the combination of <PRE> and <TT> like this:
>
> <PRE><TT> Look no haaa a a a a  a   a    a      n         ds
> </TT><PRE>
>
> ... should result in all browsers obeying and rendering the text as
> you wrote it.
                                             _____ 
    I've seen only -one- browser that       (((   `\
    does not render <PRE> text as           _ _`\   )
    fixed-width. That browser is            (^  )   )
    DR-WebSpyder for DOS. And not            ~-(     )
    very many people use it anymore.         _'((,,,)))
    Hehe!                                 ,-' \_/    `\
                                         (          ,  |
                                          `-.-'`-.-'/|_|
                                             \     / | |
                                              =()=: / ,' aa

_.-In alt.ascii-art, Annie wrote the following -._
>     I've seen only -one- browser that       (((   `\
>     does not render <PRE> text as           _ _`\   )
>     fixed-width. That browser is            (^  )   )
>     DR-WebSpyder for DOS. And not            ~-(     )
>     very many people use it anymore.         _'((,,,)))
>     Hehe!                                 ,-' \_/    `\
>                                          (          ,  |

Another one is WebPro for the Palm.  

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