"Eric Lemings" <lemings@roguewave.com> writes:

boost-bounces@lists.boost.org wrote:

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"Eric Lemings" <lemings@roguewave.com> writes:

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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 www.boost-consulting.com