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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 9 Jul 1996.
Re: Ascii-art in HTML

Re: Ascii-art in HTML

In article <3J6rt$B+o...@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <4rmj35$2p...@Venus.mcs.com>, Jorn Barger <jor...@MCS.COM> writes
>>
>>There's a trick that supposedly works for some/many browsers,
>>where you put
>>
>><pre>
>><img alt="this
>>should
>>form
>>a
>>column" src=whatever.gif>
>></pre>
>>
>>so that the alt text 'inherits' the surrounding text style.
>>
>>Be sure to replace "<" and ">" and "&" with "&lt;" and "&gt;" and "&amp;"
>>
>>
>>I suspect there might be background/foreground colors that work
>>especially well... anyone experimented with this?
>>
> Been there, done that, doesn't work on my (v1.2) Netscape

You can use the <P> element to insert a line break. Only thing is
that this inserts a good bit of space between the lines, too.

Like this:
<BODY>
<P> ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._       George Wenzel <gwe...@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
<P>  `6_ 6  )   `-.  (    ).`-.__.`)Student of Wado Kai Karate
<P>  (_Y_.)'  ._   )  `._ `.``-..-' University of Alberta Karate Club
<P> _..`--'_..-_/  /--'_.' ,'    NETSCAPE <tm> GOLD RUSH CONTEST WINNING PAGE:
<P>(il),-''  (li),'  ((!.-'      http://www.ualberta.ca/~gwenzel/
</BODY>

(PS George, if you're seeing this, I hope you don't mind my reposting your sig art. 
It really is pretty cool.)

Now this doesn't line up right, unless the viewer sets his/her
browser to use a non-proportional font, whis is usually NOT the
default. And in HTML, I don't kow if you can set the font. You can
set the font size, but not the font. In Internet Explorer 3.0B1, I can't even set 
the font, as far as I know. Just the font size and color.

Someone did mention that they had an ascii art page out in California
somewhere. I wonder how he did it? He mentioned that his site was being
featured on some PBS special. If you could find that, maybe he could
tell you how he did it.

Rob

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From: rcr...@arcm.com (Robert Croson, Jr)
Subject: Re: Ascii-art in HTML
Date: 1996/07/09
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