Repost: Font-Problem

Message vanished... If it is now out there twice, it's not my fault. Read your
newspaper,  maybe pos...@carinthia.com vanished too ;)

-------Original post------

I need some expert advise on the fixed-pitch-fonts. Im drawing my pic's on
M$-Edit, here's an example:


___.-~~~-.___
   ~-...-~

On Edit, it looks exact like a 2-liner UFO. Then, when opening with Notepad, it
still looks _quite_ good. But, when looking at it in ForteAgent, where I used
CourierNew (I changed it to FixedSys), it looks like nothing because of the
'~'-character. The '~' is on CourierNew in same height as '-'. 


How to handle this? With `'` and '`', or '"'?

___.-'''-.___    ___.-"""-.___
   '-...-�          "-...-"

I took a look at this in CourierNew, also looking stupid. Don't care about
CourierNew users? Hmmm?

Same on my try of a CD:

              _.-~~~-._
            .'         '.
           .      _      .
           |     ( )     |
           `      ~      '
            `.         .'   
              ~-.___.-~

Don't be too hard, I'm still beginner (look at my vanishing point or the big
emoticons :)

Next, when creating borders. '~' as the opposite to '_' I'm gaining one row
inside with (nearly) same look.

 ________         _________
|        |       |         |
|        |       |         |
|        |       |         |
|        |       |         |
|________|       |         |
                  ~~~~~~~~~

Or, on the other side, a very thin .sig within nettiquette:
 _________________________________________________________________
|   ___.-~~~-.___   _ _ _  _  _   http://private.freepage.de/kapo |
|      `-...-'      |<_|-||-'|_|        kap...@carinthia.com        |
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Oh... maybe I posted too much :/ forgive me.  I took a look again at this
message with CourierNew... :-C *all* pics stupid. Finally, same at my sig:



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Kapo (kap...@carinthia.com) wrote:
: How to handle this? With `'` and '`', or '"'?

: ___.-'''-.___    ___.-"""-.___
:    '-...-�          "-...-"

I always use " for that. It does look slightly sub-optimal on some
fonts, but that's certainly better than what happens with ~. But
it depends on the situation. For examply, with this tiny stereo
pic of the Sojourner rover, the jagged shape " has on some fonts is
just perfect:
  _               ._   _      _               .
 `-'  .-.   - .   `-' '-_    `-'  .-.   - .   `
  ,-. `--'      :_   .  _; " ,-.  `--'   : _
 ( :;  ---------;-' _  -    ( :;---------;`-'_
  ""   =|,-";-.|" ,';\   .   "" =|,-";-.| ",';\
 _._._._()"()"()  `--'  _._._._._()"()"()  `--'
 """""""""""""",--.  .  """"""""""""""",--.   .
     -   ,-.  /  .:;          -  ,-.  /  .:;
   ,-.  `--' _`----'    -  ,-.  `--'_ `----'
   `-'     ,'.; .   "      `-'    ,'.;  .   "
       .   `--'     itz       .   `--'     itz

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/ ' 4(_,-_,-"_,/.'   `'--' ,------------------------' own. If you want me to
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