Re: Re[2]: [RT] E-Mail problems with RT posts

["Earl Adamy" <eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

Thanks for your post which sent me scurrying back to my OE setups to change
my menu > Tools > Options > Read > Fonts "proportional font" settings to
fixed Courier (GIF attached) so I could read your tables without having to
manually change the message setting to fixed.

Earl


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Fulks" <bfulks@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [RT] E-Mail problems with RT posts


> At 9:01 AM -0500 4/22/01, Clyde Lee wrote:
>
> >However, since formatting data in PLAIN TEXT format does not use
> >a fixed width format it is often difficult.
>
>
> It is not a problem if you set the default font for text messages to
> us a fixed-width font such as "Courier New".
>
> If everyone sent plain-text messages composed with a fixed-width font
> and used spaces instead of tabs to create columns, the messages would
> look exactly the same for everybody and use very little Internet
> bandwidth and very little storage on disks. (That is the standard for
> text messages.)
>
> HTML messages require very much greater bandwidth and disk storage -
> perhaps a factor of ten more with all the junk that is typically
> included. And if people view text messages with different
> proportional fonts (not fixed-width), messages will look very
> different.
>
> This message is composed with a fixed-width font and uses spaces
> instead of tabs to create columns. If the columns below do not
> precisely line up (decimal points and % in same locations) you are
> not viewing the message with the proper defaults set. (The right edge
> of each column should all be in exactly the same place horizontally.)
>
>
>                    Buy/Hold      Sys L1       Sys L2      Sys L3
>   NetProfit            $65K       $100K        $417K      $1490K
>   Return:             19.9%       26.2%        45.8%       53.6%
>   Standard Deviation: 33.7%       18.8%        35.9%       49.3%
>   Sharpe:              0.44        1.13         1.14        0.99
>   MaxLoss%:             71%         14%          28%         42%
>
>
> Bob Fulks
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