Re: How to copy a part of an ascii file
From Sven Guckes <guc...@neumann.math.fu-berlin.de>
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· 30 Sep 1996 00:00 · View full thread
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ber...@best.com (eve1): > In order to copy part of an ascii picture out of a group of many, you can > use a text editor such as Microsoft Word. Make sure you set it for a mono > spaced-font, such as Courier and set your font for condensed spacing. Now > copy a large ascii file into the document you just established. The way to > copy just a small portion of this file, is to hold down the ALT key and drag > your mouse to the direction you want. In other words: highlighting just the > portion you wanted. (This really helps when you want to copy just a small > portion out without upsetting the rest of the picture.) If a ASCII graphic > is not centered or on the wrong side of your page, you can also use this > feature to delete spaces on either side of the picture without having to do > major editing or adjusting of the graphic. Once copied, you can now open a > new document, use the same settings and copy your small portion(new picture) > of the previous ASCII file, into the new document. Cut it out, Matt! Sven
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,b45ba66faf096709 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: guc...@neumann.math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes) Subject: Re: How to copy a part of an ascii file Date: 1996/09/30 Message-ID: <slr...@neumann.math.fu-berlin.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 186204207 references: <324...@nntp.best.com> organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin x-access: 16 17 19 reply-to: guc...@math.fu-berlin.de newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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