Re: blahsomethingorother

>Um, I still consider myself a newbie, with a lot of questions, here's one:
>When making ascii
>art, is it "legal" to use bold, italics, or underlined? Is it ok to change
>the size of the font
>within the same picture?

     The only ASCII characters to use in a pure ASCII pic are the characters on
your keyboard, that's it. No special formatting, because a  lot of people won't
be able to see it. They will probably see the additional characters in the code
to make the letters bold (probably something like :"<" "B" ">"), and that will
destroy your picture for others.
     I was talking to Colin about this a while ago, that the underline coding
in some uuencoded files turns the rest of the file into underlined text, which
means this stupid AOL browser won't decode the file if the "<" "U" ">"
characters happen to show up in a row. It also destroyed the picture of a cat
he showed me as an example.

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http://members.aol.com/lester5374/index.htm  -  Ansi home page 
FTP://members.aol.com/lester5374/ansi  - To download the ANSI format

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