Re: FAQ: Outlook Express Fonts

.----- On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:20 +0100, Andrew Carpenter posted:
|How to set your Outlook Express 5 to view ASCII art correctly:
|
|1.  On the TOOLS menu, click OPTIONS
|2.  Select the READ tab
|3.  Click the FONTS button near the bottom of the box
|4.  For the languages UNICODE, WESTERN EUROPEAN and USER DEFINED
|    set both the PROPORTIONAL font and FIXED-WIDTH font to
|    LUCIDA CONSOLE, and FONT SIZE to SMALLER
|5.  Click OK, then OK again.
|
|
|How to set your Outlook Express 4 to view ASCII art correctly:
|
|1.  On the TOOLS menu, click OPTIONS
|2.  Select the READ tab
|3.  Click the FONTS button near the bottom of the box
|4.  For the languages UNIVERSAL ALPHABET, USER DEFINED and WESTERN
|    set both the PROPORTIONAL font and FIXED-WIDTH font to
|    LUCIDA CONSOLE, and FONT SIZE to SMALLER
|5.  Click OK, then OK again.
|
|
|NOTE : If LUCIDA CONSOLE is not available as a font, pick another
|       from the list of available FIXED-WIDTH fonts.
|
|EXAMPLES OF FIXED WIDTH FONTS        1.   ANDALE MONO
|COMMONLY AVAILABLE WITH WINDOWS:     2.   COURIER NEW
|                                     3.   LUCIDA CONSOLE
|                                     4.   LUCIDA SANS TYPEWRITER
|                                     5.   OCR A EXTENDED
|
|If you have followed the above steps correctly, you should now
|be able to view and create ASCII art as it should be.
|
|Good Luck
|
|PS.  Does anyone else feel this should be included in the
|     official FAQ (or is it ADA now?), or should I keep a
|     copy of this and post it when needed?
|
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Hi. Just to clear this up...

The FAQ is the Frequently Asked Questions document written by Matthew Thomas
and posted weekly-ish by me.
The ADA is the ASCIIArt Documents Archive, which contains a variety of
different ASCIIArt-related documents, including the FAQ.

There are a few documents with information on Outlook Express fonts in the
ADA:

aaaoepatch.txt    Registry (.REG) file to patch OE into FixedSys (and plain
                                     text)

aaaminifaq.txt    Contains the following:

.---- To get a Monospaced/Fixed Width font in MS Outlook Express -->
|Click Tools/ Options.
|Click the Read tab.
|Click the Fonts button.
|Select Courier or another fixed width font for ALL of the listboxes.
|Select Smallest.
|Click OK.
|Click OK.
'------------------ (Thanks to aardvarko) ------------------------->

You can find the ADA at http://voices.vossnet.co.uk/a/atkins/ada/ and it's
mirrors.
If you feel that a new document should be added about Outlook Express, let
me know... but the mirror hosts are a little reluctant to update things too
often so it wouldn't be added until a major update (probably the middle of
the year.)

-Martin
|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

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