Re: [Q] Is this ASCII art?

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:52:52 -0500, "Zotiel R. Bell" <ali...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I'm on a message board that has recently started to draw pictures in ascii,
>but they are all using the boards default Ariel font. Is this considered
>ASCII art, and if not, why not?

This question pops up every so often and usaully leads to an arguement.
So to avert this here are a few resources to let you draw your own
conclusions. :)

A very brief article on why ascii was develope with mention of the
teletype machines.

http://www.bobbemer.com/brandela.htm
http://www.jimprice.com/jim-asc.htm
http://www.bobbemer.com/ASCII.HTM

teletype -- tty --
Intended for media using a fixed-pitch character grid, such as teletypes, 
terminals, or portable devices with limited display capabilities.

A history of ascii text art

http://www.geocities.com/joan_stark/textasciihistory.txt

My opinion it is not ascii-art. The use of extended charchters ( that will
vary from one font to another ) and lack of fix width font. Have look at 
the fonts from Ariel to Verdana the font is display in non portional view 
and from these views the art changes from understandable to non-understable 
even though it is specified to view in Ariel. Ariel was the default of 
AOL and they also did not have a portional font to my understanding.

Reading from the link above or do search on marco-art i believe the
differances between the two is more defineable when they are seen.

>I've made a few of them...mostly diddles you can see mine as well as a few
>of the better ones at the link below (NOTE: If it not ASCII ~!PLEASE!~ do
>not go there flaming them for their ignorance. If it is...well cool :))
>
>http://cgi.gamefaqs.com/boards/gentopic.asp?board=5552

Hey some of those very nice, enjoyed the visit. :)

However notice one thing the font face on the board is not specified 
to view in the predetermined font, Ariel for the marco-art


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