Getting character data from a text document to format exactly as written

[Howard C. Berkowitz]

Please see the Transmission Control Protocol article, section "Segment fields".  You'll have to look at it in edit mode to see what I'm trying to do, but, essentially, the source of the material I want to paste is an "ASCII picture". I am guessing that at least some combination of nowiki and code will make this happen, and I hit one random combination that got the latter part to display correctly -- but could not get it to work for the entire graphic.

Protocol field diagrams of this type are a standard convention in IETF specifications, which are public domain.  There are other places where I really would like to cut, paste, and issue a few metacommands, rather than have to build the graphic in a draw package, produce a PNG, upload, and then go through the image sizing and positioning details.

Help!

[Derek Harkness]

It's simple really. To make text preformated and using a mono-spaced font (such as courier) just put a space " " before each line or else wrap the whole thing inside <pre> and </pre> tags.

I've done it for you.

[Howard C. Berkowitz]

It's simple really. To make text preformated and using a mono-spaced font (such as courier) just put a space " " before each line or else wrap the whole thing inside <pre> and </pre> tags.

I've done it for you.

Thanks much! Your more comprehensive text here cleared up my confusion in edit mode; I misread your note to mean that both the space and <pre></pre> tags were needed.

In restrospect, you've explained why I would get weird formatting when I'd accidentally put a space in front of text, and it would disappear off the right margin. Since there were no hard carriage rerturns as there are for the RFC, there was nothing to tell the formatting engine to end the line.