Words becoming bunched up over each other?

[Garrett Hylltun]

Rev 2.6.1 on OS X

Has anyone ever encountered words being bunched up on top of each  
other in a field when using htmltext?

I'm displaying a list of words padded with an amount spaces so that  
each word is equal in length, and then adding a tab after each word,  
and using a mono spaced font.

This does not happen all the time though, only on certain conditions  
it seems.  But I was wondering if anyone else has run into this and  
has figured out how to keep it from happening.

Thanks,
-Garrett