# Using HTML or TXT for External Text Files
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**Created:** [June 12, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-html-or-txt-for-external-text-files/190535 "2006-06-12T19:19:57Z")\
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**Author:**  [@misterpatrick](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/misterpatrick)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-html-or-txt-for-external-text-files/190535/1 "2006-06-12T19:19:57Z")
Hello all,
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**Dynamic Text, Odd Characters and Quality**
Hello all,
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I am having a couple of issues with dynamic text. I am loading fairly simple text documents, but am ending up with some font oddness. For example, I am using plain Arial in the CSS but am ending up with words running together. In the word “Oxygen” the “Oxy” letter spacing is really tight. Do I have something odd in the CSS? Here it is:
.bodyCopy
{
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 12px;
color: #666666;
line-height: 28px;
}
Pretty straightforward so I can’t figure out why things look bad. Would embedding the font, even if it’s arial, make any difference? How does that work in the code? I tried using the embedFonts = true; but that didn’t seem to really do anything.
So I’m thinking that perhaps I should be loading HTML or something for these external text files. These aren’t huge, but several of them contain listings, headline, main body copy, sub head - the typical sort of thing on would find in a text file. Is there a good primer out there as to what works with CSS and text files or different ways of getting text files into Flash?
My other problem is that non-letter characters are really hard to work with. For example, the + and % need to be written as %2B and %25 which is really annoying. Is there an easier way to do this? Would for example, loading an HTML file be easier than a .txt file? This makes it really difficult for a client to edit a file.
So any pointers on making this look better and easier really appreciated.
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