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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 1 Feb 2004.
Re: Nerd Boy, episode 493

Re: Nerd Boy, episode 493

"Philip Newton" <pne...@newton.digitalspace.net> skrev i meddelandet
 news:ujo...@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:20:25 +0100, "Rainer Rosenthal"
> <r.r...@web.de> wrote:
>
> > Great, so I am not the only one in the world with this "tick"
> > of looking for long "blank streets" in texts.
>
> Some people are really good at writing "bricktext" as well -- that is,
> text which is justified on both edges *without* adding extra spaces,
> just by careful choice of words.

I've been known to dabble in that art myself, from time to time.
It's fun, but I am rather at a disadvantage, since English isn't
my mother tongue.  As you have undoubtably noticed by now I have
tried to construct a "bricktext" paragraph in this message.  I'm
also experimenting with "blank streets", trying to align all the
spaces.  It's hard work to write and rewrite every sentence lots
of times to get it right, although I've only built two "streets"
through this whole message.  Phew!  It'd have been too much if I
hadn't written two spaces after each full stop.  I don't usually
do that.  However, this paragraph more than called for it.  Yep.

-- 
 OO  Joaquim G�ndara
.||. http://www.Nerd-Boy.net
 bb  jg

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From: "Joaquim G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com>
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Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 493
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