Classical Theism, Philosophy, and Religion Forum / I cannot find a way to insert line breaks within a code block.

**Posted by Johannes** 10/03/2018 2:24 pm

Therefore I cannot use the code block to make a text-based table.

Last edited by Johannes (10/03/2018 3:57 pm)

**Posted by seigneur** 10/06/2018 3:03 am

Such issues belong to the Test subforum - if we had one. Let's see how/if this forum software supports tt and pre.

inline tt:
Let's see how/if this forum software supports [tt]tt[/tt] and [tt]pre[/tt].

pre:
[pre]
Such issues bel
ong to the Test
subforum
[/pre]

**Posted by seigneur** 10/06/2018 3:05 am

Neither is supported. New forum software must!

@Johannes
A way to do a text-based table would be with pre tags, but since we don't have it, just put it in plain text without tags.

Edit: Ah, but for that let's see if plain text works as desired. Text-based table using the tab key:

random words
continue to
several lines

Result: Works when you do it in an external editor, but gets somewhat mangled upon pasting here.

Conclusion: Good support of the pre tag is highly desirable.

Last edited by seigneur (10/06/2018 3:21 am)

**Posted by Johannes** 10/07/2018 9:24 pm

seigneur wrote:
@Johannes
A way to do a text-based table would be with pre tags, but since we don't have it, just put it in plain text without tags.

Thanks, that's exactly what I had intended to do and eventually did (two tables in this post). I tried originally to write the tables within code blocks in order to use a monospaced font, but the result obtained using the standard variable-spaced font was acceptable for a forum post.

Last edited by Johannes (10/07/2018 9:30 pm)