Re: Overtype, also known as overstrike
Sandy Morton (sw...@atl.hp.com) wrote:
: Actually, way back when, the first ascii art that was
: designed to print out on the old 132 column line printers
: used overstrike for shadowing a lot.
Are you talking about a line through the character,
or double strike? I thought "overstrike" refers to a
line through the character.
: Somewhere I have a great collection of the old pictures,
: just no way to print them out anymore. :^(
Gee, even the ASCII streams would be nice,
I would enjoy converting them some way.
Joe Fischer
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