Re: Has anybody seen an ASCII art like this?

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:59:54 -0000, "Martin Double"
<mar...@mgdouble.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>That is a very well put point of view Ville.
>Just a couple of small comments:- My OCR software reads Cad Text, Book Text
>and even Your Text, I therefore consider all of them to be text in this the
>computer age. If you were to agree that ASCII is only true if constructed
>using a manual typewriter or the like then I would be in complete agreement
>with your philosophy.

Ah, Ascii is just a way of representing text. Ascii art is art created with
text that conforms to the Ascii standard. This means that there are
limitations on the character set.

The limitation on text placement is introduced by the character based
terminal, and the fixed width font is heritage from the older days when those
terminals were common and proportional fonts weren't common with computers
yet. Fixed width is also a necessity for easy portability of Ascii Art. This
way it can be viewed with any terminal or line printer that conforms to the
Ascii spec, and has a fixed width font.

A book might at some time been in Ascii format when the author's word
processor saved it to disk, but when it's a book, it's in print and no longer
ascii in that sense.

Ascii (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is just a standard
that describes how certain 7-bit numbers are translated to characters in
computer terminals.

>Otherwise, progress has already taken hold and there
>will be no stopping it, however painful this may be!

Ah, I have no pains with development even though I still love my Amiga and
don't own a wheel mouse..

>The rest is not worth debating.
>
>Regards
>Martin
>PS open your mind just a little., and let the light in.

Hehe, don't get me wrong. I have nothing against people doing modern art with
text.. Ascii art on the other hand is what I described before. We're here for
the challenge.

oh, ps. it's really ASCII but it's a long acronym so I prefer to capitalize
only the first letter, which is the Wrong Way of doing these things.. :-)

ObAscii

 

Ascii code 0x20 (the Space character :-)

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