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I have looked but cannot find info on this.

How does one insert tabs or specify a fixed point font on a Wiki page?
All of the eleven available fonts are proportional and trying to insert tabs
just changes fields.

In essence, I want to display a two column table and left align the second column.

Second question is what exactly is the "Table of Contents" supposed to do?
The Wiki just discusses how to enter it but does not contain any info on how
to populate it or what auto update is supposed to do.

Art


Namaste', Art

Art,

How does one insert tabs or specify a fixed point font on a Wiki page?

The wiki lacks tables or tabbed columns. You could probably use the <> Source Code editor to create a table in HTML code.

Second question is what exactly is the "Table of Contents" supposed to
do?

What it does here:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Moving-to-Groups.io

The Wiki just discusses how to enter it but does not contain any info
on how to populate it or what auto update is supposed to do.

You populate it by using Heading 1, Heading 2, ... from the Format drop-list. Make sure your first use of such a format is after the TOC insertion, and make sure it is Heading 1. Else confusion will ensue.

Shal


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On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 03:05 AM, Shal Farley wrote:

What it does here:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Moving-to-Groups.io

Art, I think Shal meant:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/How-to-put-a-Table-of-Contents-on-a-Wiki-page

be careful that the TOC script isn’t formatted as a heading. It goes whacky and of course there’s no indicator the text is a heading if the size is consistent in your page. It drove me NUTS until I realized that I had inserted the TOC script into an already formatted area. ?

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 02:24 AM, Art Kocsis wrote:

How does one insert tabs or specify a fixed point font on a Wiki page?
All of the eleven available fonts are proportional and trying to insert tabs
just changes fields.

In essence, I want to display a two column table and left align the second column.

This is tricky on every forum on every forum site I've ever been on--not just Groups.io or their Wiki.

As Shal noted, the best solution (if you have the skill) is to use an HTML table. Here is the second-best solution.

Intuitively, you would think that you could simply switch the font to a monospaced (fixed-pitch) font like Courier or Lucida Console and use spaces to line things up. That works in word processors like Word. Unfortunately, the HTML standard defines "whitespace" as spaces, tabs, newlines (CR, LF, or CRLF). It states that any string of whitespace shall be condensed to a single character of whitespace when rendering. So even if you carefully save a table that's padded with spaces for alignment, and it's delivered to the viewer that way, his browser betrays you and collapses it to a single space.

So the only option is to use some non-whitespace character for some of the padding, never using two whitespace symbols in sequence. Here's a bogus table, where I'm trying a few different padding options with Courier.

Column A? ?Column B
aa _______ bbbbb
aaaa ..... bbb
aaaaa _ _ _bbbbbb
a _ _ _ _ _bbbb
aa . . . . bbbbb

I think I like the solid underscores and dots better than the dashed versions, but all of these seem to work.

Larry

Will the "pre" "/pre" tags not work in HTML code in here? Just asking, haven't tried it out on a GIO page,
but the HTML pages (non-phpbb) we've built on other servers have always allowed for "pre" tags to
create white space...

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 12:29 PM, Butch7999 wrote:

Will the "pre" "/pre" tags not work in HTML code in here?

Yes, but you will have to enter that in "source code" mode, as the editor does not provide these tags via the menu icons. Using <pre></pre> will also put a gray box around the text, which may or may not be objectionable. This is some artifact of the style sheets groups.io uses, which I'm told are a (see the files area).

Example:

This
      text        is
                      preformatted
and        contains       embedded
                                                           whitespace

Hope this helps,
Bruce

Thanks, Bruce, we were just trying to suggest another option for OP Art Kocsis,
unsure if it would work on the GIO platform.
Another way around the difficulty of posting properly arranged tabular material
would be to lay it out as you like in whatever font in a word processor, take a
screen shot of that, save it as a .jpg or .gif or .png or whatever in your graphics
programme, and add that image to the post. The drawback of course is that
the text in the table would no longer be searchable.