SQL Report columns formatting

Hi Everyone,
I've got a basic report with a column that is a concatenation of other columns (used for break formatting), and I want to give the effect that there are still separate 'columns' in the concatenation. I've tried using CHR(9) and RPAD in the SQL query to add the 'whitespace' but as soon as Apex gets hold of it, the extra spaces are removed and I'm left with only a single space.
It does the same thing when the "Display As" value is changed to either "standard report column", or any of the "Display as text" types.
Any ideas? This is apex 4.0.0
Thanks!

I've got a basic report with a column that is a concatenation of other columns (used for break formatting), and I want to give the effect that there are still separate 'columns' in the concatenation. I've tried using CHR(9) and RPAD in the SQL query to add the 'whitespace' but as soon as Apex gets hold of it, when the browser renders the output in accordance with the HTML spec the extra spaces are removed and I'm left with only a single space.The HTML specification instructs user agents to collapse white space characters, so spaces and ASCII tabs in options will be treated as a single space.
In a standard report use
<li><tt>white-space: pre</tt> in the CSS Style property for a CSS approach
or
<li>The HTML Expression property for a <tt><pre></tt> HTML wrapper (ensuring the Display Text As column attribute is Standard Report Column rather than the default Display as Text (escape special characters) ):
<pre>#COLUMN_NAME#</pre>Better still, create a custom report template using suitable mark-up so that there are "separate columns" in the report.

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About
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Version 3.2.09
Build MAIN-09.30
Copyright © 2005, 2012 Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
IDE Version: 11.1.1.4.37.59.48
Product ID: oracle.sqldeveloper
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Oracle IDE     3.2.09.30
Versioning Support     3.2.09.30

sqldeveloper64-3.2.09.30-no-jre.zip.
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user12957777 wrote:
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PaulP wrote:
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