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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 Aug 1997.
Re: Help! ascii art in an HTML page

Re: Help! ascii art in an HTML page

In article <3400ba50.11527318@207.14.113.2>, com...@home.bed (comatose)
writes:

>I want to put some ascii art on a web page but it comes out looking
>squished. Do I need to specify a specific character set in the header
>or something? 

make sure you format the ASCII art...
<pre>
 ... your picture
</pre>

this will do the trick.

You may also want to boldface the ASCII art-- it comes out a little
more defined-- although on Lynx it will look underlined.

-joan
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Subject: Re: Help! ascii art in an HTML page
Date: 1997/08/25
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