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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 17 Jan 1999.

                            
    
    
Re: Overtype, also known as overstrike
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: Overtype, also known as overstrike

                    

                        From Joe Fischer <joe...@iglou.com>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 17 Jan 1999 00:00                                                    · View full thread
                                            

                

            

        


        

            

                

                    

                        
Nate / DAC (nat...@southwind.net) wrote:
: > Sandy Morton (sw...@atl.hp.com) wrote:
: > : Actually, way back when, the first ascii art that was
: > : designed to print out on the old 132 column line printers
: > : used overstrike for shadowing a lot.
: > 
: >       Are you talking about a line through the character,
: > or double strike?   I thought "overstrike" refers to a
: > line through the character.
:
: Actually a line through a character is called "strikethrough" if I remember
: right.

       I remember that being implemented in a word processor
or something recently, maybe HTML.

: "Overstrike" means to type more than one character in the same space, or the
: same character several times, to produce shadows, differences in
: intensity/darkness, or to combine two or more different character images.

       Ok, I've seen a lot of .doc files that use
the backspace character to do that on printouts,
like for paragraph headers in manuals, etc.
       But I don't know if it is ASCII or not. :-)

Joe Fischer 



                    

                

            

        


        

            

                

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