X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE15D1B522 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:30:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22916-09 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:30:08 -0400 (AST) Received: from smtp2.mts.net (smtp2.mts.net [205.200.16.113]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 295D5D1B515 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:30:04 -0400 (AST) Received: from Dell4500 (wnpgmb01ba1-ac05-15-127.dial.mts.net [142.161.15.127]) by smtp2.mts.net (8.12.8-20030918/8.11.3) with SMTP id hADDU1BJ026430; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:30:02 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <001a01c3a9ea$42832c00$6400a8c0@Dell4500> From: "George Weaver" To: "Tom Lane" Cc: "Josh Berkus" , , "Louise Cofield" References: <003a01c3a973$743eed00$7801a8c0@Louise> <002c01c3a994$5ba611d0$6400a8c0@Dell4500> <18607.1068694278@sss.pgh.pa.us> Subject: Re: Looks are important Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:29:31 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200311/151 X-Sequence-Number: 15966 Hi Tom, Switching to a fixed-width font did the trick. Thanks for the help. George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Lane" To: "George Weaver" Cc: "Josh Berkus" ; ; "Louise Cofield" Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 9:31 PM Subject: Re: [SQL] Looks are important > "George Weaver" 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 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org) >