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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 24 Oct 1999.
Re: newbie's work

Re: newbie's work

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 22:15:23 -0400, "Boris Zyryanov"
<bor...@worldnet.att.net> provoked the following text:

>> : i am new to this newsgroup, here's my work, any comments are fine:
>> :          ______0_________________8                      8
>> :   ___/             |_________|________|=====|=====|[]=
>> : {|          _____|_________|=======|=====|       ==|=======>
>> : {|____/     /_/  \ \
>> :                /        \ \
>> :                          \ \
>> :                           \ \
>> : it is a rifle.
>> Looks garbled , messed up , out of sync..
>> The reason for this is that you have used the font called Arial to draw
>> this. Arial is a proportional font .. which means that not all characters are of
>> equal width. This causes problems when displayed on a computer which does'nt
>> have the exact same font or newsreader.
>> Therefore all ASCII images are drawn in a fixed-width font (like courier
>> or courier-new) because even if displayed on a different computer with a
>> different fixed-width font, the image will look much the same.
>
> a) RIfle of Leo looks much beter.
> b) Rifle of CeeJay is all messed up and garbled. I have no idea how did he
>achieve this using Courier New :)

A) Apperently, you don't use Courier New. 
B) Try using a _real_ newsreader instead of OE.
-- 
        Peter Punk
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