Yep.
Yep. I’ll wager that someone like @BenLee will see this and use it to demonstrate to the team that all this great work and late nights has paid off - more importantly, we fully understand why Coda is so “uncommonly good”.
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here’s something that could help you render your perfect “formatted narrative”:
Just render SVGs one per row, with all the formatting and layout options you want. You’ll need to prepare those SVGs manually or export from a vector editing app first though.
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ok so now I get to learn how to code SVGs too?!?!
You’re amazing @Paul_Danyliuk thanks for thinking to message me about this!
Hey @Bill_French when you used the tab character " " in your reply, how did ‘get it’? How do you enter it into this site? Tab for me jumps to the next block. What is the shortcut?
You have to find an actual tab character (like in TextMate) copy it, and paste it. 
Or use this Chrome extension.
Or use Character(9)
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Six months later, knowing about Character(9) has been tremendous.
Hi, fellow new Coda user here, and I cant get the bars to align for the life of me.
@Bill_French could it be that something has since changed about Coda formulas that would make your code here not work properly anymore?
I’ve sure learned a lot on the way, but regardless I’ve just spent like 4 hours making sure I’ve started with the same characters as you and then wiggling every possible part and nothing would reliably bring me closer to the desired outcome.
Here a screenshot with pre-bar strings of length 3 and 7 like in your examples.
Also @Johg_Ananda sry for fat-fingering on the access request button (which can’t be undone?
)
Hope I’m just missing some really minute dumb beginner thing
Ha ha! I’m sure anything in this thread could be referred to as “proper”. It was really an excursion to try to address a specific formatting objective.
One question, though, have you tried to copy a tab character and paste it into the formula. This goes back a long time and I recall having to do that.
Oh wow, thanks for replying so quickly.
Yes I did with one from here yesterday
and just now I’ve tried to copy tab characters from several other places just in case, but they all turned out duds 
I’ve also looked at the cells in the Coda Android App, Vivaldi mobile browser, Chrome desktop browser (yesterday’s screenshot being from Vivaldi desktop) to make sure it’s not some weird browser thing, but I’m none the wiser again.
If it’s helpful context, I’m so far completely self taught in anything computer science, coding, RegEx, formulas etc. so the sky’s the limit as far as possible blindspots are concerned, all I know is that I know nothing except “Being able to precisely control alignment of concatenated objects/strings of differing lengths within a cell” would be a valuable skill to have, like when creating a work breakdown structure as shown in this post, which I’ve copied and since somewhat modified (not to complete satisfaction ofc)
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Wow flashbacks to a 4 year younger version of myself.
I believe this can be easily handled now with the card() formula.
card(
concat(User1, linebreak(), User2),
concat(Rectangle(user1params), linebreak(), Rectangle(user2params))
)
It’s not perfect but helps in many uses cases.
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