Variable-width layouts

[spencermountain]

hello, apologies if this is foolish or out-of-scope - is there any way to mitigate ink layout issues in non-monospace situations?

I've got a script that looks great in the terminal, then gets bunged-up when pasted elsewhere. It would be cool if there was some way to anticipate this.

I don't know enough about the subject - are there some zany unicode whitespaces that take up a full fixed-width?

thanks!

[vadimdemedes]

I thought a space takes the same width as any character in monospace fonts?

[spencermountain]

yeah, that's right.
I'm trying to get an Ink layout looking sensible in a variable-width setting.
The (bad) idea was to support Ink-based diagrams in comments, emails, slack, etc.
Are there any clever ways to attempt this? Thought I'd ask the pro.
thanks

[vadimdemedes]

Oh, I see. I don't think that's going to work, because Ink's entire layout system depends on a monospace font being used (as they usually are in terminals).