Re: About rendering ascii code in a .txt medium

.----- On Wed, 23 Sep 1998 05:26:18 GMT, Pete Casso posted:
|MY point is that you always need to display the invisible ascii code to view
|ascii art. And to me, it doesn't matter whether you display it on the screen,
|or print it out, or through a .txt file, or through a gif file, etc. The
|decisive point here, is that the display actually shows what the ascii artist
|has created (with ascii code.)
|
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Not with ascii *code*, but with ascii *characters*, or more precisely a
particular font's interpretation of what image goes with that ascii number
code.


I believe that those who want to view ascii art will have to put up with a
fixed width font, and those that don`t care can keep their Arial or
Helvetica or whatever.

In Free Agent (which is what I am using) a simple right-click on the message
and you can choose between Fixed-Width and Propertional fonts. This is no
difficult task, and most other newsreaders can do the same.  Just because
one or two mail/news clients choose to use proportional fonts, that does not
mean that the older clients are now out of date and invalid.  Many operating
systems are still running on text-based screens and so they have a
fixed-width font *only*. Just because Microshite made a mail client that
thinks it knows everything about how people want their messages displayed,
and assumes that that single-space at the start of the line was an accident,
does not mean that we need to render our postings unweildingly large and
unsuitable for 90% (I believe that was the figure this thread has been
using) of users who have a 'proper' newsreader and not some 'idiot's guide
to the internet' newsreader/email client combination that thinks it`s a web
browser.


Have fun!
Martin
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