Re: Batman Sign

Seal do Mar <**l33...@alfa.ist.utl.pt> wrote in message
<6c9jdd$j9i$1...@ci.ist.utl.pt>...
>Brock Kevin Nambo (new...@earthling.net) wrote:
>
>> Outlook Express follows the convention (At least, I assume it's a
>> convention, because I've heard it discussed for other programs) that if a
>> line is only indented one space, it's not worth indenting.
>
>> (Unfortunately, most of the other artists around here often don't indent
>> their art by at least two spaces :\ )
>
> convention?! what convention? I've been around here much before  outlook
>express and I've never seen nothing about convention on how to ident ascii
art.
>Oh! I forgot ... mr gates wants to help us think the  right way, isn't it?
>Crap ... I think I'll start identing my sigs exactly one  space ... or
maybe
>just on some lines. I still would  like to know how did they come up with
>this brilliant ideia!!

Erk.

Okay, just a little clarification... I didn't mean "indention of ascii art,"
I meant "indention of preformatted text in general...".

A word processor (or other text editor/displayer) might choose to be
conscientious, and not show spaces as the first character on a line.  Why?
Mainly (I think) because the designers might consider prespaced text
"choppy," or perhaps they are considering what will happen to the text when
the window (if such is used) is resized.  When two spaces are given, it
shows the text reader/editor that

  1) The spacing is either an intentional indent (i.e., new paragraph, ...)
or
  2) Preformatted text, (i.e., diagrams, ascii-art, ...)

I seem to remember experiencing this before the days of Outlook Express, but
I can't remember exactly when (I *have* had a computer since I was five [or
so], and all.. that's a long time)...

>>BKNambo
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