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Depends If you're using a proportional font, you'll have a hard time (impossible) lining things up if you simply rely on spaces as your column start/stop points. If you can write a fancy printf (been a while since C, so bear with me) statement that would take advantage of the positioning code (<esc>*p???X), you can use any font you want (as long as it'll fit on the page). The positioning command is an absolute, so fonts don't matter. Maybe Irv will pop in with a sales pitch for Sizeit which is a utility that takes ascii type files and lines 'em up in columns when you use a proportional font. (Check Library 2 for Sizeit info)