I really like SVG and this was a great article that contained many things I didn't know. That said, I _tried_ to use SVG for something as simple as displaying

I really like SVG and this was a great article that contained many things I didn't know. That said, I _tried_ to use SVG for something as simple as displaying some multiline monospaced text with whitespace preserved, and found it's either really hard, or actually not possible (unless you position each glyph manually). Is that really the case?