<H5>Subject: Re: Annual reports  From: mg@ajc.com (Mike Gordon) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 18:04:11 EST    </H5>
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From: mg@ajc.com (Mike Gordon)
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 18:04:11 EST    
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Date	7/13/95
Subject	RE>Annual reports
From	Mike Gordon
To	online newspapers

  RE>Annual reports
Pat Churchill wrote:

>I am wondering about the best way of handling all these tabulated
figures...Scanning the pages, Acrobat files...

Don't do that, Pat, life's too short for those of us who might want to read
them.

Extract them from Lotus as a .txt file. Edit the text in Notepad or any
fixed-width editor so that the columns line up neatly on your creen. Then,
in HTML, use <pre>...</pre> to switch to fixed-width (preformatted) text --
Courier for most folks -- and they'll line up neatly on the Web.

That's the quick, dirty and universal route. If you want elegance, you can
format them as Netscape tables, but the results will probably be
unintelligible to anyone not using Netscape.

If you run tabulated text as a graphic, you'll just slow things down and
irritate people.

Mike Gordon, Director of Unsolicited Advice
Access Atlanta
http://www.ajc.com/


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