Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 3 Dec 1998.
Monotype.com Retraction
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· 6 messages · 3 Dec 1998 - 6 Dec 1998
A few days ago, I posted a rave about the "beauty" of Monotype.com due to smoother letters and lines. (There just aren't enough Fixed-width fonts to suit my hunger). Anyway, I visited ... American Gothic by Grant Wood http://www.inetw.net/~mullen/woodg.htm ... and while the image was really cool, the characters were misaligned slightly and I use the Monotype font for fixed width on Netscape. I switched to Courier New, however, and everything lined up perfectly! I noticed this at first when I was composing an e-mail to a friend of mine, showing her a few things about ascii art. I cut and pasted an image from the Star Wars post that zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) made recently and decided to yellow the Star Wars and make the stars in the background white, showing my friend how they can be colored in an HTML E-Mail. I noticed that when I was coloring them, the letters were shifting slighty to the right, throwing everything out of alignment. Then when I view web pages with colored text under Monotype, it's out of alignment as well. But this does not happen if the letters are all the same color. Everything is perfect. So I guess if there are slight imperfections in monotype.com, then they may not be so evident with smaller images.... but once you get up around 50-200 characters in width, it becomes really obvious. So, that's my contribution to the fort for today. Have fun -- _______ _ _ _ (_______) (_) | | | | _____ _ ____ ____ _ | | ____ ____ ____ | | _ ____ | ___) | | / ___) / _ ) / || | / ___) / _ | / _ | | | / ) / _ ) | | | | | | ( (/ / ( (_| | | | ( ( | | ( ( | | | |< ( ( (/ / |_| |_| |_| \____) \____| |_| \_||_| \_||_| |_| \_) \____)
>Message-id: <366...@news.earthlink.net> > showing my friend how they can be colored in an HTML >E-Mail. oh no! While some email readers may support the html tags, there are many that do not. Your beautifully colored email picture may very well look like a bunch of html tagged garbage to most people.. I hope that you use good judgement when forwarding that kind of email on. -joan -- / \ \ \ ,, / / joan stark '-.`\()/`.-' spu...@juno.com .--_'( )'_--. / /` /`""`\ `\ \ ASCII ART GALLERY: | | >< | | http://www.ascii-art.com/ \ \ / / jgs '.__.'
spu...@aol.comASCIIart (Spunk1111) posted: |-| >Message-id: <366...@news.earthlink.net> |-| |-| > showing my friend how they can be colored in an HTML |-| >E-Mail. |-| |-| oh no! While some email readers may support |-| the html tags, there are many that do not. Your |-| beautifully colored email picture may very well |-| look like a bunch of html tagged garbage to most |-| people.. I hope that you use good judgement when |-| forwarding that kind of email on. Oh, I already know what kind of software she uses and she said she can receive and read HTML. :) I experimented by sending one to my sister to see if AOL can read non-AOL HTML e-mail. She could, except that the Red is going out in her monitor. <g> Firedraake
>Subject: Re: Monotype.com Retraction >From: Firedraake <fir...@earthlink.net> >Date: 12/4/98 9:45 AM Eastern Standard Time >Message-id: <366...@news.earthlink.net> > >spu...@aol.comASCIIart (Spunk1111) posted: > >|-| >Message-id: <366...@news.earthlink.net> >|-| >|-| > showing my friend how they can be colored in an HTML >|-| >E-Mail. >|-| >|-| oh no! While some email readers may support >|-| the html tags, there are many that do not. Your >|-| beautifully colored email picture may very well >|-| look like a bunch of html tagged garbage to most >|-| people.. I hope that you use good judgement when >|-| forwarding that kind of email on. > >Oh, I already know what kind of software she uses and she said she can >receive >and read HTML. :) I experimented by sending one to my sister to see if AOL >can >read non-AOL HTML e-mail. She could, except that the Red is going out in her >monitor. <g> Did you ever see JAVA-enabled E-Mail? That stuff is COOL. Addams Family Mansion _____ ) ( / oOo \ /_______\ L A E .-. M S |~| C I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-T |_| |I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I ).**.(~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~E |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~).**.( / | | \ R | / | | \ ) |__| ( _|_.---._|_ ) |__| ( |______|_________________|' .-. '|__________________|______| | | .-. .-. |,-|~|-,| .-. .-. | | \ . / |~| |~| || | | || |~| |~| \ . / )H ( |_| |_| ||_|_|_|| |_| |_| ) H( | | | | | | | | | | | | \ / ... ... |_.=~=._| ... ... \ / ). ( |~| |~| |I| |I| |~| |~| ) .( |H | |_| |_| |I| .|I| |_| |_| | H| | | |I|___|I| | | '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~' -- .-~~-. (_^..^_) Lester||||AMC Vote Howard Stern for Time 100 Person of the Century Poll. http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/time100/poc/century.html *Visit my new web page! ANSI/ASCII* http://members.aol.com/lester5374/
>Message-id: <366...@news.earthlink.net> I hope that you use good judgement when >|-| forwarding that kind of email on. > >Oh, I already know what kind of software she uses and she said she can >receive >and read HTML. :) I experimented by sending one to my sister to see if AOL >can >read non-AOL HTML e-mail. Whew, I'm glad to hear it... for a moment I thought that you might be considering sending that coded stuff to an unsuspecting mailing list or newsgroup. Obviously you must be using AOL 4.0-- otherwise the ASCII art would look skewed on AOL's system. -joan -- ___ _ _ ."` `"=, {_}:_`'=='` _,=="""=,\ `'--.=" _.====, `| `'_(| ^.^ |)/ joan stark )';_'='_/.' _ spu...@juno.com ~ .'` '.=/(__/` | ~ / / o| \ \_/ ~ /`-,_/ o| |-' ORIGINAL ASCII ART GALLERY `(`___ o/__/ http://www.ascii-art.com _`\ \`""` \ __ || `'.'._ /-"// || ,/`-.`./ // jgs `\\_/ `'-.//
.----- On 3 Dec 1998 17:40:23 GMT, Spunk1111 posted:
|>Message-id: <366...@news.earthlink.net>
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|> showing my friend how they can be colored in an HTML
|>E-Mail.
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|oh no! While some email readers may support
|the html tags, there are many that do not. Your
|beautifully colored email picture may very well
|look like a bunch of html tagged garbage to most
|people.. I hope that you use good judgement when
|forwarding that kind of email on.
|
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