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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 4 Jan 2000.
Re: So, You Want To Make Text Art?

Re: So, You Want To Make Text Art?

On Mon, 03 Jan 2000 04:15:57 GMT, JRO (twe...@my-deja.com) wrote:
:
: "`1234567890-=~!@#$%^&*()_+qwertyui
:  op[]QWERTYUIOP{}asdfghjkl;'ASDFGH
:   JKL:"zxcvbnm,./\ZXCVBNM<>?|...."
:       /
:      \__/              \__/
:      (__)              (__)
:    .//()\\           .//()\\ \
:    .\\__//           .\\__//"It IS accurate, but it
:      ||||              ||||  doesn't quite "sing"..."
:      ||||              ||||
:     (_)(_)            (_)(_)

Actually, it looks a lot nicer if you write it like:

    !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`
    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~

Why not try to find a compromise - something short that'd fit in
your tutorial without too much trouble:

 !"#$%&'()*+,-./  You shouldn't use any foreign characters in your
0123456789:;<=>?  art, only those in the chart on the left. If you
@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO  have an ordinary American keyboard, there should
PQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_  be no others visible on the keys, so you have no
`abcdefghijklmno  need to worry. However, if your keyboard has any
pqrstuvwxyz{|}~   other characters be careful not to use them.

Ok, it's not as short as I hoped, but at least it's bricktext. :-)
Maybe you could just list the punctuation, and warn against any
accented letters..

-- 
Ilmari Karonen - http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/
"Which is not to say that I generally look at a given post and
 think 'Aha..one-hander'"         -- Dustin K. Anderson in AFU

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From: Ilmari Karonen <use...@itz.pp.sci.fi>
Subject: Re: So, You Want To Make Text Art?
Date: 2000/01/04
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