Re: Req: Christmas ascii-art
From Veronica Karlsson <dre...@on.spammer>
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· 18 Nov 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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Cathy Moshos wrote: > > Well, we're getting better... > NO! PLEASE UNDERSTAND! YOU ARE NOT DOING BETTER! (and I definitely do not mean to be rude, but please read this post! thoroughly!) [ 8< lots and lots of GARBAGE (proportional font ascii art) 8< ] A quote from the ascii art FAQ: _________________________________________________________________________ 3 Help! I can't tell what this picture is supposed to be ... If a picture you see posted to this newsgroup looks like a complete mess to you, don't panic. There are several reasons why it may look weird. * If *none* of the pictures in the newsgroup look like what the sender describes them as, then you're probably using a proportional font. To view (and draw) ASCII art, you must use a fixed-width font -- one where all characters are the same width (like on a typewriter). If you're not sure if your font is fixed-width or not, check the following two lines and see if they're the same length. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM If they aren't, find the option in your news reader which lets you specify which font to use. If you just have a choice between proportional and fixed width, choose fixed width. If you have a choice of which font to use, try different ones until you find a fixed-width one (using the 'i's and 'm's above as a guide). Popular fixed width fonts include Courier, Monaco, and Fixedsys; anything with `fixed', `terminal', or `tt' in its name will also probably be fixed-width. Some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) supply newsreaders to their customers which, strange as it seems, don't allow them to use a fixed-width font. If this applies to you, there's not much you can do except to ask them for a newsreader which does, or switch ISPs. * If there are a lot of almost-blank lines in the picture, then the message is probably suffering from 'wrapping'. This wrapping may be being done by your newsreader; see if it has an option called `wrap long lines' or similar, and make sure it is turned off. If this doesn't work, then the wrapping was probably done by the news program of the person who sent the picture, in which case there's not much you can do -- everybody else will be seeing the same thing. * If there are a lot of < and > symbols in the picture, with words like HTML, FONT COLOR, B, I, and so on inside them, then the picture has been sent in HTML format (see Question 8), and your newsreader does not understand HTML (most newsreaders don't). * If you still can't work out what the picture is supposed to be, try reducing the font size (if you can), and moving a couple of metres away. If it still looks unrecognizable, then it's probably a problem with the news program used by the person who sent the message. _________________________________________________________________________ Please understand! You probably send some beautiful stuff, but it is not technically correct and the rest of us just see a whole bunch of GARBAGE where your pictures were supposed to be! :( I do want you to get this right! Please look at these pictures: http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/vk/pics/rubbish/not_good.dum.gif http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/vk/pics/rubbish/not_good2.dum.gif http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/vk/pics/rubbish/not_good3.dum.gif They show you how the rest of us see your posts. It is NOT PRETTY! Please CHANGE FONTS to "Courier", "Monaco" or "Fixedsys" according to the instructions above! Here are some pictures that are technically correct. Look at them and get them to look right! Then look at your pictures with the same setting! 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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,f2420f4e6fe90bd X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Veronica Karlsson <dre...@on.spammer> Subject: Re: Req: Christmas ascii-art Date: 1997/11/18 Message-ID: <347...@on.spammer> X-Deja-AN: 290513779 References: <64pri6$ovc$1...@axe.netdoor.com> <726...@hugbear.NL.net> <347...@leusd.k12.ca.us> <347...@on.spammer> <347...@leusd.k12.ca.us> <347...@leusd.k12.ca.us> <347...@leusd.k12.ca.us> <347...@leusd.k12.ca.us> <347...@leusd.k12.ca.us> <347...@leusd.k12.ca.us> <347...@leusd.k12.ca.us> Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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