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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 29 Mar 1998.

                            
    
    
Re: Monospaced fonts, Text editors and (NEW!) ascii utils!
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: Monospaced fonts, Text editors and (NEW!) ascii utils!

                    

                        From Doug Wilson <dwi...@hotmail.com>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 29 Mar 1998 00:00                                                    · View full thread
                                            

                

            

        


        

            

                

                    

                        
In article <351...@sympatico.ca>, Pete Casso
<pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Just a few comments on the Mac stuff
> > Note Pad (included with MacOS)   <== has no monospaced font

Well, unless you hack the app to use a monospaced font in ResEdit :)
Seriously though, you're right on this one. Out fo the box it's not
monospaced but since I've hacked it I sometimes forget.

> The Mac also comes with a "Scrapbook" utility for storing all kinds of
> snippets, including frames of ascii animations. Just hit the forward or
> backward arrow keys on your keyboard and you have a flipbook type of
> animations that you can scrub forward or backward (important for
> smoothing out the animations in the draft stage). I used it for a while
> for my earlier animations.

Now that is a most excellent idea that I hadn't thought about yet. Wonder
of the scrapbook is scriptable. Could make a nice little platform specific
animator :)

-- 
Doug Wilson
http://www.cybcon.com/~dwilson



                    

                

            

        


        

            

                

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