Re: A cartoon of mine

"Sarah and Tony Day" <day...@uswest.net> writes:

% Ooh, this did not work out well!!! Help, someone. :^( This looked
% good before!!!!!!!!

This doesn't look like the kind of errors you'd get if you used tabs
instead of spaces.  It looks like every set of one or more spaces got
condensed into one space.  What kind of newsreader are you using?
What program did you make your picture in?  (I'd say something like
'Did you type "sed 's/  */ /g' filename" instead of "cat filename"?',
but I bet you're using a different operating system altogether.  Well,
it's funny regardless.  Ha ha!)  Also, the final result was
double-spaced, which probably isn't right, either.

It kinda reminds me of those Japanese puzzles where try to reconstruct
a small bitmap given how many streaks of consecutive black pixels are
in each row and column.  I'll see if I can expand your spaces out
right.

% The Sorceress is Visited by the Multi Purpose Girl
% 
% (~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(
% )                   '`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`                            No, that's )
% (                       '`'`'`'`                                 beef stew (
% )                         `'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`                    for dinner. )
% (           Is this             `'`'`'`                         /          (
% )           some kind of          `'`'`'                       /           )
% (           magical potion,      `'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'     /            (
% )           Sorceress?      `'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'   ,~~;,~~.~~,         )
% (          /                       `'`'`'              (`'` ` `   `,       (
% ) .~',~~~~.                          `'`'`'             ~~```  ` `  ;      )
% ( ;,~'~~~~'         `'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'            |@ , @ | , ';      (
% ) ; ;( *)*|        `'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`' '           ( ' `       ;      )
% (  ;,;`.o.'       _'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`             `._o__/^;' ';      (
% )    ,~''~____._ /~~`'`'`'`'`'`'~~~\                      ;..' ';.` ;      )
% (   /,; ,----`-` \___'`'`'`'`'`'___/                       ' * _ ;.;       (
% )   \\; ;       /#################\                    \____/ ) )          )
% (   .'' `,    ,|###################|.                 \_____/ | \          (
% )    ;   ;  (@)|/\#####|####)\###/(|(@)                |______|\ \         )
% (    ;...;  (@) / |\#/(#)\##/ (/(/ | (@)                  / , \ |_)        (
% )     |\\  (@)  |/ ) |/ (| / |/\ \ (@)                   |  ,  \           )
% (    _||\\_ (@)/__/__|___\_(__(__|_|(@)                 /   ;   |          (
% )  '--' '-'  (@)smd                (@)                 |    ,   |          )
% (              (@)(@)(@)(@)(@)(@)(@)                  /     ;   |          (
% )                                                    |     , ;   |         )

Oof.  It's really not that easy; I'm sure I've severed poor
Sorceress's head.

--brian

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