Re: a problem with my sig

In article <6tgqu8$1s3$1...@news02.btx.dtag.de>,
Ato...@t-online.de (Philipp Paland) wrote:
> 
> Martin Atkins schrieb in Nachricht <35f...@news.vossnet.net>...
> >.----- On 9 Sep 1998 17:09:30 GMT, Philipp Paland posted:
> <snip>
> >|P.S.: I'm using Arial
> >|P.P.S.: If someone can give me a better version of that sign, maybe more
> >|circle-like, that would be great
> >|
> >'-----------------
> >Don`t use Arial.
> >
> >          d%+%b
> >     d$$         $$b
> >   =++@H         XX++/
> > d$$@X$XX@    +H$XH@H+$b
> >d$XMHHHHXXM  $HXHXHH@H$+b
> >X$H@@HHHHHH  HHHHH@H@MX+%
> >qXX        @@         %+p
> > qX$      M@MMH      ++p
> >   qX$  MMMM@MMM   +/=
> >     qHX$XMMMM@X++%p mga
> >          q$%$p
> >
> >
> >If you want to use it, leave the mga on it.
> >
> <snip>
> >|
> >|Arial rules!
> >'-----------------
> >
> >No it doesn`t. View ascii art in FixedSys, Lucida Console, Courier New or
> >Courier.
> >
> >
> >Arial is crap... leave it well alone.
> >
> 
> I think I have to explain something.
> 
> 1. I must have been totally confused in that moment, when I wrote my sig.
> The Quote "Arial rules!" is the result of an error in my head (can't
> describe it better). Of course it should be "Courier rules", as I'm using
> Courier since about 3 month ago. Sorry for that mistake, now I left any "xxx
> rules" statements away.
> 
> 2. The problem was not about font, as explained above. I try to say it more
> clearly (what is a bit difficult for me, as english is not my native
> language, so please excuse any mistakes):
> 
> I use your sign to explain:
> 
>           d%+%b
>      d$$         $$b
>    =++@H         XX++/
>  d$$@X$XX@    +H$XH@H+$b
> d$XMHHHHXXM  $HXHXHH@H$+b
> X$H@@HHHHHH  HHHHH@H@MX+%
> qXX        @@         %+p
>  qX$      M@MMH      ++p
>    qX$  MMMM@MMM   +/=
>      qHX$XMMMM@X++%p mga
>           q$%$p
> 
> This is what you sent me (by the way: wonderful)
> 
> And this is what Outlook makes out of it:
> 
>           d%+%b
>      d$$         $$b
>    =++@H         XX++/
> d$$@X$XX@    +H$XH@H+$b      <----- that
> d$XMHHHHXXM  $HXHXHH@H$+b
> X$H@@HHHHHH  HHHHH@H@MX+%
> qXX        @@         %+p
> qX$      M@MMH      ++p      <----- and that line
>    qX$  MMMM@MMM   +/=
>      qHX$XMMMM@X++%p mga
>           q$%$p
> 
> those lines seem to have a SPACE missing. In fact, it is there, if I copy
> and paste into Notepad, or if I use more SPACEs in front of the pic, and
> also when I write messages, everything works just perfect. But if I read
> messages from this or other newsgroups, and if there is only ONE SPACE and
> after it a letter or something, OE doesn't show that first space. As you can
> see above, that sometimes makes pictures ... difficult to look at.
> 
> I can solve the problem for me. I just have to add at least two more SPACEs
> in front of each line and it's ok:
> 
>             d%+%b
>        d$$         $$b
>      =++@H         XX++/
>    d$$@X$XX@    +H$XH@H+$b
>   d$XMHHHHXXM  $HXHXHH@H$+b
>   X$H@@HHHHHH  HHHHH@H@MX+%
>   qXX        @@         %+p
>    qX$      M@MMH      ++p
>      qX$  MMMM@MMM   +/=
>        qHX$XMMMM@X++%p mga
>             q$%$p
> 
> This is the first version of the picture I can read without problems. But I
> can not tell everyone in the net to add two spaces in front of each
> ascii-pic. So can someone tell me how I can switch that off?
> 
> Phew, I hope I won't be flamed, but I thought this was the right ng for it,
> because it's a problem esp. important for viewing ascii-art.
> 
> Thanks in advance...Philipp
> 
> --
> 'Sehr lustig Scotty, aber jetzt beam SOFORT meine Klamotten runter'
> Philipp Paland aka AtomicKid aka ZeroCool
> Ato...@t-online.de
[snip]
> P.S.: I know that I shouldn't add my sig to a response, but I wanted to show
> I left "xxx rules!" away

Here in the newsgroup alt.ascii-art, you should feel free to add your
sig to all of your posts if that is what you would like to do. This is a
newsgroup about ascii-art, after all.

There are some freeware newsreaders that you could download and then you
won't have to use Outlook Express anymore for reading the news. You can
try:

Forte Free Agent
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/freagent.htm

or WinVN
http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/software/winvn/winvn.html

No doubt, there are others, but we have both of these on our computer
and like them both. Neither of them are huge programs so won't take up
too much room on your computer.

Hope that helps you, because as you say, you cannot expect people to
cater to the whims of one company that suddenly decides that if we put
one space at the beginning of a line, we don't really mean it.

In the meantime, as you use outlook express, make sure that you put at
least two spaces at the beginning of lines if you have one space lines.
(Sheesh, that's an awkward sentence!) You cannot turn off that feature
with outlook express. Your only recourse is to write to the company so
that they will eliminate that cunning little feature in their next
upgrade.



NOTE: I do not pick up my mail from the idirect address that you
see. If you are e-mailing me and hit the reply button, add an "e"
to "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers.
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