Proportional ASCII art (?)

Is there such a thing as proportional ASCII art?

All ascii art I've seen is in a fixed pitch font.

I don't think I can do more than a box in ascii art,
(fixed pitch or proportional) but proportional fonts
have a structure that can (can it?) be used to make
different (interesting?) pictures.
--
Pedro Graca <pme...@mail.telepac.pt>

Dear Pedro:

Some people try to make ASCII art using proportional fonts...
this is generally considered an error, and is treated as such
on this newsgroup.

The reason is that the viewer must use the EXACT SAME font face
as the one the artist used to create the art. Otherwise it looks
distorted. Unfortunately, there is no proportional font face that
is universally available. That's why we insist that people use
fixed pitch fonts only.

Pedro Graca wrote:
> 
> Is there such a thing as proportional ASCII art?
> 
> All ascii art I've seen is in a fixed pitch font.
> 
> I don't think I can do more than a box in ascii art,
> (fixed pitch or proportional) but proportional fonts
> have a structure that can (can it?) be used to make
> different (interesting?) pictures.
> --
> Pedro Graca <pme...@mail.telepac.pt>

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On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Pedro Graca wrote:
> Is there such a thing as proportional ASCII art?
> All ascii art I've seen is in a fixed pitch font.
> Pedro Graca <pme...@mail.telepac.pt>
Hi Pedro, Cool idea. Here is a rat you can fiddle with.
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Lena Mindlina did the rat below but I fiddled with the rat above. The rat
above was the one I copy and pasted into MS Word and set at 72 size
letters and New Times Roman Font.
  (\"/)```~.
  o o (   ( )_________ I did this rat myself
 >O<- ~  "~            Lena Mindlina
This is the ascii rat normal size. 

Hmmmmmm Here are two asciis to try also:
   `m'
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Scott's lady bug
   .   .
    \ /
  `/ ! \`
  | o:o |
 ~| o:o |~
 / \_:_/ \ daniel maltz's ladybug
  
Good luck, Jon Melusky
PS Also I grabbed my free web site from geocities and put a few
ascii art pics there. It is at:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7889
 

Hi,

Hope you don't mind that i took your rat ancii rat and did a little bit
of fiddaling with it.  Here is what I came up with:
(\``/) ''"~
  o o (   (")
 >0<- ~ ,,-  ~  -~- M.E.L

>   (\"/)```~.
>   o o (   ( )_________ I did this rat myself
>  >O<- ~  "~            Lena Mindlina
> This is the ascii rat normal size.
^
|----(The original)

I just kindof gave it more "height" and made it look a little more
"homley", like a rat should look <G>.  

Comments and suggestions welcome: mailto:mlo...@execpc.com

Best,

Matt.
http://www.execpc.com/~mlowerr/ -=- mlo...@execpc.com

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PG> Is there such a thing as proportional ASCII art?

 Well someone from AOL postet some ASCII using proportional fonts, but I
 don't like this. Everyone using proportional fonts can use fixed fonts
 too but many people only have fixed fonts. In addition art using
 proportional fonts depends on which font to use (and which you might not
 have) and which side to view at.

PG> All ascii art I've seen is in a fixed pitch font.

 What I see as the better way.

PG> I don't think I can do more than a box in ascii art,
PG> (fixed pitch or proportional) but proportional fonts
PG> have a structure that can (can it?) be used to make
PG> different (interesting?) pictures.

 Maybe, but what's about all the people who can't use proportional fonts
 and don't have the font you used?

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pme...@mail.telepac.pt (Pedro Graca) wrote:

>Is there such a thing as proportional ASCII art?

>All ascii art I've seen is in a fixed pitch font.

>I don't think I can do more than a box in ascii art,
>(fixed pitch or proportional) but proportional fonts
>have a structure that can (can it?) be used to make
>different (interesting?) pictures.
>--
>Pedro Graca <pme...@mail.telepac.pt>

The possibilities for this type of art is worth looking into..

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