Cheers! NOW I get it!

Please speak slowly and clearly! ;-p

JE McGimpsey wrote in message ...
You don't understand *how* "the underscore is used for spacing".


The underscore indicates that enough space for the character that
follows it is to be inserted. So the width of the - sign *is* the amount
of space to be inserted.

If you wanted the width of the underscore inserted, you' use two of them.