[tex-eplain] [solved] Re: \obeywhitespace issue

[Rodolfo Medina]

Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> writes:

> Hi Rodolfo,
>
>     1     L'albero a cui tendevi
>           la pargoletta mano,
>
> A natural space in CMR is 3.3333pt; a numeral is 5.0pt.
> Therefore the results do not align.  They align in cmtt because they (and
> everything else) have the same width.
>
> You can't use spaces to get WYSIWYG output in variable-width fonts :).
> To get what you want independent of font, use a table or some other
> alignment method ... -k


Yes, it is clear now...  Many thanks, and thanks to you all for developing and
maintaining Eplain TeX ;-)

Rodolfo