Re: Thank you!
From Andrea Lachner <dre...@worldno.spamonline.co.za>
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· 1 Apr 2002 07:37 · View full thread
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"Philip Newton" <pne...@newton.digitalspace.net> wrote in message news:mtu...@4ax.com... > On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 00:17:27 +0200, "Andrea Lachner" > <dre...@worldno.spamonline.co.za> wrote: > > > Aaahhaaa, I have just had a breakthrough in the above gecko drawing - > > looked at it in courier, carefully, staring and yessss, I see it! > > That's the way to do it. > > ASCII art should (IMO) only be done in a monospace (constant-width) font > such as Courier, Topaz, Lucida Console[*], ... since that ensures that > all letters are the same width and the art will look (more or less) the > same for everybody. > > With proportional fonts, you can never be sure whether your image will > look the same... if you're making art in Arial and the receiver has > Times New Roman, or Palatino, or whatever, then perhaps his space > character will be wider but his semicolon is narrower or whatever, and > things won't line up properly. Your horse and teddy, for example, looked > rather strange when viewed in a monospace font (Courier New for me) > since it didn't line up properly. Thanks Philip I have now set my messages to read in Courier and amazing I can see all the drawings properly! And yes, the teddy does go weird! Learn something new every day! Thanks Andrea
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