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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 26 Feb 1997.
Re: my ascii doesn't look right

Re: my ascii doesn't look right

What is no doubt happening is that you created the ASCII in a
non-monospaced font --  in other words, the different letters take up
different amounts of space. It will look ok, but in that font only.
Netscape news is probably changing the font, messing up the ASCII.

The only way to avoid this is to create the ASCII in a monospaced font, in
which all letters and spaces take up the same amount of space. The two
most common are Monaco and Courier... try one of these.

The Rev.

In article <331...@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>, Chris Hernandez
<h6m...@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> wrote:

> Although I am by no means an ascii artist, I have a questions as to why
> when I post something by Netscape news, my signature file gets all
> screwed up.
> 
> Any ascii art I had included in my sig looks messed, and even this
> simple box (see below) does not look right.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions, I have already tried to delete all the
> white space after and between the characters but it doesn't work.
> 
> 
> -- 
> ##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@
> ||                        Chris Hernandez                               ||
> ||                 University of British Columbia                      ||
> ||                       Computer Science                              ||
> ||                                                                ||
> ||                   email: h6m...@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca                        ||
> ||                          her...@unixg.ubc.ca                      ||
> ||                   web:                                              ||
> ||               http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/h6m1                ||
> @@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##@@##

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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f996b,1a2befaab273d0be
X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public
From: mar...@ricochet.net (The Right Rev. Felix Roy Mariposa, Prophet)
Subject: Re: my ascii doesn't look right
Date: 1997/02/26
Message-ID: <mar...@mg134-184.ricochet.net>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 221674818
References: <331...@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
Organization: ULC
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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