Re: Looks are important - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From George Weaver
Subject Re: Looks are important
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Msg-id 001a01c3a9ea$42832c00$6400a8c0@Dell4500
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In response to Re: Looks are important  ("Louise Cofield" <lcofield@box-works.com>)
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Hi Tom,

Switching to a fixed-width font did the trick.

Thanks for the help.

George

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "George Weaver" <georgew1@mts.net>
Cc: "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>; <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>; "Louise
Cofield" <lcofield@box-works.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] Looks are important


> "George Weaver" <georgew1@mts.net> writes:
> > ... the ' 's are not quite the same width as=
> >  an ordinary number or letter.  Thus the physical display length of "30
cha=
> > racters" (padded) can vary from row to row. The result is that the kinds
do=
> > n't necessary line up neatly.  I need to concatenate the two as they are
be=
> > ing displayed as one column in a drop down combobox.
>
> Use a fixed-width font.
>
> > Is what I'm trying to do possible???
>
> Not with a variable-width font that you haven't even told us the exact
> character widths of ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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