Re: NEW auto dimension tables doesn't work in orgtbl Text mode

[Aankhen <aankhen@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 00:53, Sebastian Szwarc <seba_szwarc@tlen.pl> wrote:
> Ok here it is:
> Aquamacs version: newest :)
> Snow Leopard 10.6.7
>
> Set - unicode UTF-8
> Font  for text mode - Lucida Grande 13pt
>
> And this is how it looks
>
> http://img861.imageshack.us/i/zrzutekranu20110420godz.png/

Samuel Wales was on the money: Lucida Grande is a variable-width font.
Org-mode expects fixed-width (monospaced) fonts, i.e. fonts where
every character has the same width, such as Courier or Consolas.  With
a fixed-width font, tables can be aligned by simply making sure each
cell contains the same number of characters through padding smaller
values with spaces and truncating larger values.  With a
variable-width font, on the other hand, it’s much more complicated (if
it’s possible at all—I think you’d have to do weird things with
images).

Try a different font, e.g. Lucida Console, and you will see things
lining up correctly.

Aankhen