MonkeyWiki: Preformatted Text

Although the wiki will honour line breaks you put in, your browser will ignore multiple line breaks or spaces. Also, it is rare for web pages to show in a non-proportional font

like this

which you may want to use: for example, this was the original way of creating a table because all the characters will stay aligned in columns.

To achieve an 'exactly as you typed' effect, you need to use preformatted text. The text will typically appear in a non-proportional font.

To do this, enclose the text in two sets of curly braces {{...}}.

ex
  amp
      le

And here's a simple table:

                     Profit   Enjoyment
Merchant banker          98          20
Professional gambler      7          50
Furniture maker         -20           3
Bank robber             274          19