Re: Question about ascii art

On 12/16/96 5:46PM, in message <594jfb$26...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>, Jeff Reid 
<cm3...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:


> Roberta Quadro (rob...@meinc.com) writes:
> > I've tried to copy and paste ascii art into messages
> > but they don't come out the same as where I copied
> > them from. Is there a special procedure involved
> > when you put ascii art into a message? I'm new to
> > all this and it's interesting to be able to put the
> > art in your messages.
> > 
> > Thanks everyone and Happy Holidays!
> 
> Where do you try to copy to and from? I find that with my server (text
> only), when I download and open a file in WP it gets messed up. On my
> program (ProcomPlus) it aligns the text in one postion only, as in
> Wordperfect it can be put anywhere. ie, * * * * * * *
>               could be translated into: *******
> 
> It's annoying, but oh well.

You learn by experience, this is something that I figured out and it seems to 
work out ok..as in the samples below:

       .----.           this is what you probably get when you copy & paste
      .'`.  .'`.        this candy cane. there seems to be a rule of thumb
     /-._:--:_.-    |-._/    \ _.|      here. the rule being: if the last
    |._ |    |' _|                      character to the right in the art is
    `---'    |-' |                      a \ (slash) it will not be copied, thus
             |.-'|                      throwing everything else off one line.
             |_.-|                      I have found that if you put your
             | _.|                      cursor on the space where it should be,
             |' _|                      type it in, and then hit enter, things
             |-' |                      will even up.
             |.-'|
             |_.-|          experiment with this below.                     
        jgs  | _.|          hit edit, select all, edit, copy, compose, edit,
             |' _|          paste. (this will copy this whole page over so you
             |-' |          can play around)
             `---'
       .----.           the \ should go where the X is, then enter
      .'`.  .'`.
     /-._:--:_.-X   |-._/    \ _.|
    |._ |    |' _|
    `---'    |-' |
             |.-'|      and you have a good candy cane! as the next one is.
             |_.-|
             | _.|
             |' _|
             |-' |
             |.-'|
             |_.-|
        jgs  | _.|
             |' _|
             |-' |
             `---'

        .----.
      .'`.  .'`.
     /-._:--:_.-\
    |-._/    \ _.|
    |._ |    |' _|          SEE !!!   rule #2 if you have spaces through your
    `---'    |-' |          art, put your cursor at the very left on the empty
             |.-'|          line and press the <--- (delete arrow) once. Do this
             |_.-|          for every blank line and it will bring you art into
             | _.|          focus
             |' _|
             |-' |
             |.-'|          rule #3 sometimes the first line needs to be moved
             |_.-|          over to the right just a few spaces (like the top
        jgs  | _.|          of the candy cane)
             |' _|
             |-' |
             `---'

that's all there is to it! remember these 3 rules and you won't need to buy
programs.
STUART

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