Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> writes:

> I have a Fortran program, which echoes a table of input parameters. The
> emacs source looks like this:
>
>   print '(" Nth, Nga                =", 2i10)', Nth, Nga
>   print '(" mth, mGa, deriv windows =", 2i10)', mth, mGa
>   print '(" dT, nT, Tmax            =", f10.3, i10, f10.2)', dT, nT, nT*dT
>   print '(" Blob radius R0          =", f12.1)', R0
>   print '(" S0                      =", f10.3)', S0
>   print '(" P0                      =", f10.3)', P0
>   print '(" mu                      =", f10.3)', mu
>   print '(" KM                      =", f10.3)', KM
>
>
> - on screen, that is. I work under Suse 12.1 and have what I think is
> a pretty up to date version of emacs. The problem is that the equal
> sign characters are not positioned as they appear on screen, but have
> various positions, so the output is staggered instead of being lined up.
>
> I assume this is some smart feature of emacs, but why does it do this?
> Can I force emacs to show the text as it really is spaced?

Are you using a monospace font?

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