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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 20 Feb 1997.
Re: Sigfile for AOL
In article <199...@ladder02.news.aol.com>, SSKAN
<ssk...@aol.com> writes
>America Online uses letters that have BIGGER capitals, they take up space
>than regular small characters.  That's why they will come out funny. 

Yeah. We knew that. It's called a "proportionally spaced font";
which most fonts are.  Unfortunately THEY ARE ALL SPACED DIFFERENT WAYS.

The **ONLY** way we can all agree to see the same thing
is if we all use a fixed-spacing (typewriter) font
for our drawings.


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   "Consciousness is a product of the brain no more & no less
    than earwax is a product of the ear"-Martin Hunt on a.r.s 

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From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Sigfile for AOL
Date: 1997/02/20
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