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To: levy who wrote (1890)	8/24/1999 5:12:00 AM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2340

one thing that would help a bit on the preview box when you are trying to fix spelling errors is if the margins and the words would all be in the same place as the box I can't speak for the programmers down there, but I suspect that's next to impossible under the current state of html. The first problem is that we don't see these messages under the same width. The width of the message depends on the display options chosen by the user. More problematic is that the font in which the message is written and edited is of an essentially different nature than the font in which the message is displayed. Most browsers use a monospaced font for editing messages (and this aspect is dependent on the browser and not on the site design). Most browsers will display the message with a variable-space font. It's next to impossible to match line lengths when they're done in different fonts. It might be possible to display the preview in courier -- the font used by many browsers for the editing window -- but that would have the disadvantage of hiding the formatting that was applied to the message. This kind of change would not be obvious.