1) The PRE html tag will also reduce the size, so that will not be helpful.
2) Turning off UBB Code will not help anything relating to this
thread.
3) Turning html on will cause a return to the problem that parentheses are not allowed inside < marks. In other words, you would never be able to write
for ( i = 0 ; i < 10 ; i++ ) in your post without getting an error which would prevent you from posting it (which is why we turned html off in the first place).