Re: a problem with my sig

Martin Atkins schrieb in Nachricht <35f...@news.vossnet.net>...
>.----- On 9 Sep 1998 17:09:30 GMT, Philipp Paland posted:
<snip>
>|P.S.: I'm using Arial
>|P.P.S.: If someone can give me a better version of that sign, maybe more
>|circle-like, that would be great
>|
>'-----------------
>Don`t use Arial.
>
>          d%+%b
>     d$$         $$b
>   =++@H         XX++/
> d$$@X$XX@    +H$XH@H+$b
>d$XMHHHHXXM  $HXHXHH@H$+b
>X$H@@HHHHHH  HHHHH@H@MX+%
>qXX        @@         %+p
> qX$      M@MMH      ++p
>   qX$  MMMM@MMM   +/=
>     qHX$XMMMM@X++%p mga
>          q$%$p
>
>
>If you want to use it, leave the mga on it.
>
<snip>
>|
>|Arial rules!
>'-----------------
>
>No it doesn`t. View ascii art in FixedSys, Lucida Console, Courier New or
>Courier.
>
>
>Arial is crap... leave it well alone.
>


I think I have to explain something.

1. I must have been totally confused in that moment, when I wrote my sig.
The Quote "Arial rules!" is the result of an error in my head (can't
describe it better). Of course it should be "Courier rules", as I'm using
Courier since about 3 month ago. Sorry for that mistake, now I left any "xxx
rules" statements away.

2. The problem was not about font, as explained above. I try to say it more
clearly (what is a bit difficult for me, as english is not my native
language, so please excuse any mistakes):

I use your sign to explain:

          d%+%b
     d$$         $$b
   =++@H         XX++/
 d$$@X$XX@    +H$XH@H+$b
d$XMHHHHXXM  $HXHXHH@H$+b
X$H@@HHHHHH  HHHHH@H@MX+%
qXX        @@         %+p
 qX$      M@MMH      ++p
   qX$  MMMM@MMM   +/=
     qHX$XMMMM@X++%p mga
          q$%$p

This is what you sent me (by the way: wonderful)

And this is what Outlook makes out of it:

          d%+%b
     d$$         $$b
   =++@H         XX++/
d$$@X$XX@    +H$XH@H+$b      <----- that
d$XMHHHHXXM  $HXHXHH@H$+b
X$H@@HHHHHH  HHHHH@H@MX+%
qXX        @@         %+p
qX$      M@MMH      ++p      <----- and that line
   qX$  MMMM@MMM   +/=
     qHX$XMMMM@X++%p mga
          q$%$p

those lines seem to have a SPACE missing. In fact, it is there, if I copy
and paste into Notepad, or if I use more SPACEs in front of the pic, and
also when I write messages, everything works just perfect. But if I read
messages from this or other newsgroups, and if there is only ONE SPACE and
after it a letter or something, OE doesn't show that first space. As you can
see above, that sometimes makes pictures ... difficult to look at.

I can solve the problem for me. I just have to add at least two more SPACEs
in front of each line and it's ok:

            d%+%b
       d$$         $$b
     =++@H         XX++/
   d$$@X$XX@    +H$XH@H+$b
  d$XMHHHHXXM  $HXHXHH@H$+b
  X$H@@HHHHHH  HHHHH@H@MX+%
  qXX        @@         %+p
   qX$      M@MMH      ++p
     qX$  MMMM@MMM   +/=
       qHX$XMMMM@X++%p mga
            q$%$p

This is the first version of the picture I can read without problems. But I
can not tell everyone in the net to add two spaces in front of each
ascii-pic. So can someone tell me how I can switch that off?

Phew, I hope I won't be flamed, but I thought this was the right ng for it,
because it's a problem esp. important for viewing ascii-art.

Thanks in advance...Philipp

--
'Sehr lustig Scotty, aber jetzt beam SOFORT meine Klamotten runter'
Philipp Paland aka AtomicKid aka ZeroCool
Ato...@t-online.de

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P.S.: I know that I shouldn't add my sig to a response, but I wanted to show
I left "xxx rules!" away

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