[rrd-users] Text Alignment in Graph Box?

[Tobias Oetiker]

Yesterday Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:08:34AM +0100, Reinhard Scheck wrote:
> > >> My lines are terminated with \n
> > >> Can you look at the definition
> > >> http://gargamel.merlins.org/cacti/graph.php?action=properties&local_graph_id=14&rra_id=6&view_type=&graph_start=1258976884&graph_end=1258991224
> > >> to see if I'm missing something else?
> > >
> > > \n is not realy a valid choice (it is only accepted for backward
> > > bug compatibility) but anyway, since you are NOT using a monospace
> > > font you have to use \t for alignment ... which you don't seem to
> > > be doing.
> >
> > As this is a cacti graph, we should mention that at this point cacti does
> > "tabular adjustment" based on monospaced fonts only by "tabbing" with blanks.
>
> I noticed that, but even so I tried 4 monospace fonts and they don't quite
> look monospaced as can be seen in the graph above where I end up with a
> characters that are half aligned with the characters above and below them.

the font in the graph above is NOT monospaced ... try courier.

> Is monospace not really monospace afterall?
>
> > I did not yet fiddle around with rrdtool tab chars.
> > But if anyone is able to "translate" the rrdtool graph command that it works
> > using non-monospaced fonts and tabbing chars, I happily will implement this in
> > cacti.
> > This is the time to do it for cacti 088!
>
> Is it harder than removing spaces and adding a tab instead?

:-) no ... and you can should even use \t and not a tab character
(9).


cheers
tobi
>
> Marc
>

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