Talk: ASCII art on web pages

bob...@wwa.com (Bob Allison) wrote:

>Win Kang <eas...@rigel.oac.uci.edu> wrote:
>>How do i do this? do i simply write into the html file?  what if some 
>>error occurs b/c of existence of certain characters?  what's a good 
>>command to use?
>
>   You need to do two things;
>
>   1. Use <pre> tag before the ASCII art starts, and </pre> after it 
>      finishes.  This will force the browser to use a monospaced font.

Ahhh, but if you're not going to use any other HTML tags in the text,
use <XMP></XMP>: that way you don't have to worry about item #2 below,
as it ignores any tags (I found this out the hard way).  If you don't
understand what I mean, look at the source on one of my pages
(http://tardis.pacificue.edu/~browninb/stories) preferably one of the
Deep Space Adder stores.  I use <XMP></XMP> and don't have to escape
for the special characters (and I have plenty of <'s and >'s).

>   2. Use the escape sequesces for characters like: & < >
>      You can find them in HTML references.

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