Re: How are ASCII art best viewed ?

Neil Franklin wrote :

>Anil <x3l...@vsnl.com> writes:
>
>>      I am pretty new to this group. I would like to know which is
>> the environment for which most creations are made. Black chars on
>> white or white on black, that is.
>
>More made: surely black on white, these days, as most computers come
>preset to this "paper emulation" combination, and most people do not
>bother changing it (usually never used the oposite).
>
>Of course any old frat (like me) will tell you that the real way to
>set a computer screen can only ever be black background, with an
>choice of white/green/orange for text, depending on what tradition one
>comes from.
>
>Funny enough I prefer green (IBMer), despite being a DECer (orange).
>
>Hmmm, I wonder how many people today even know what DEC was, I am
>starting to feel old.
>
>
>> I'm confused while drawing things
>> which hava a lot of shading. (I use white on black : Text mode).
>
>Supprisingly it usually works on both. Human eyes are surprisingly
>good at filling in.
>
>
>--

I'm with you coz I get bad eyes if I look at bright screen with few
dark things. I've seen the green IBMs that you are talking about -
used to be at my school long ago.

One more problem - What about the fonts ? Just about any fixed width
font will do ?

Thanks for help.

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