Re: [boost] Boost Units library preview

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-24 11:34:45

"Eric Lemings" <lemings_at_[hidden]> writes:

> boost-bounces_at_[hidden]  wrote:
>> 
>> "Eric Lemings" <lemings_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> 
>> >> Here's an example of a quantity.  The distance from
>> >> here->|                        |<-to here is a quantity with a
>> >
>> > Well there is supposed to be a lot more whitespace between those 
>> > vertical bars.  Let's try a quantity of horizontal length.
>> 
>> Eric,
>> 
>> For your own sake, get a new mailer, or at least a new 
>> mailreader.  Or read Boost through gmane on a decent 
>> newsreader.  Your posts are showing up just as you intend 
>> them, but your mailreader is making you think they're garbled.
>
> Well that time I was responding the appearance of the message
> in the Boost lists archive (using Firefox):
>
> http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2006/08/index.php

There's nothing *you* can do if the archive decides to use a
variable-width font.  I think I once requested of our mailing list
admins that they use a fixed-width font for message bodies, but I'm
not sure that modification of the archive software was within their
power.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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