Cut and paste problem

On Sunday, 08 Feb 98 Hayley Jane Wakenshaw uttered forth the following:
: Can anybody else think of a reason why it isn't working? 
: Her address is jba...@hotmail.com if you need to ask her for more info. I
: really dont' have a clue why the art is coming out skewed!!

	The test lines you sent, did they have spaces in them?  I'm just
wondering if somehow her computer might be removing extra spaces when she
cuts and pastes, the same way extra spaces are removed in html files when
you don't use the <PRE> tag.  I don't know how this could happen (though
if it's a Microsoft program, it could be some sort of stupid "intelligent"
feature that got turned on and thinks it's smart enough to know what's
right), but that's about all I can think of if it's not the font, unless 
for some reason the cut&paste wasn't picking up the carriage returns.
	Anyone else have any ideas?
			Sir Isle

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Can anyone help me with this query I had from someone?

> Hi,  I love your collection of ASCII ART and your links.  I have a 
> question though.  When I try to cut and paste the art...it messes up.  
> It doesn't look like a picture when I do this.  I have tried pasting it 
> in my email and on nopepad.  Can you help me with this???

I gave her the font explanation, with the four lines to line up to see if
she had the right font, but I got this back:

> Thanks for your quick response to my letter.  I looked at the 4 lines 
> and they are the same length in my mail program.  But when I cut and 
> paste the art it does not look the same.   
> You did four lines and said it was probably the font.  Well the four 
> lines stop at exactly the same point.  Can you think of any other reason 
> why I can't cut and paste the ASCII art and it look the same?

Can anybody else think of a reason why it isn't working? 
Her address is jba...@hotmail.com if you need to ask her for more info. I
really dont' have a clue why the art is coming out skewed!!

-Hayley

>From: flu...@quadrant.xs4all.nl.spambgone (Hayley Jane Wakenshaw)
>Date: Sun, Feb 8, 1998 08:55 EST
>Message-id: <734...@hugbear.NL.net>

>> Thanks for your quick response to my letter.  I looked at the 4 lines 
>> and they are the same length in my mail program.  But when I cut and 
>> paste the art it does not look the same.  

It almost sounds like she is cutting/pasting from her
reader (which is in the correct font) to a text editor
which is NOT in the correct font...
Just my guess...
-joan
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w6n...@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Sir Isle) writes:
>On Sunday, 08 Feb 98 Hayley Jane Wakenshaw uttered forth the following:
>: Can anybody else think of a reason why it isn't working? 
>: Her address is jba...@hotmail.com if you need to ask her for more info. I
>: really dont' have a clue why the art is coming out skewed!!
>
>The test lines you sent, did they have spaces in them?  

Nope. :/ It waaas just the regular 
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thing.............. I've mailed her with what Joan said about the font 
probably being wrong in whatever she's trying to paste the art into but 
had no reply yet.

>I'm just
>wondering if somehow her computer might be removing extra spaces when she
>cuts and pastes, the same way extra spaces are removed in html files when
>you don't use the <PRE> tag.  I don't know how this could happen (though
>if it's a Microsoft program, it could be some sort of stupid "intelligent"
>feature that got turned on and thinks it's smart enough to know what's
>right), 

I don't know how puter literate she is, so it could be anything. ;-) But 
I'm pretty sure it's not to do with spaces. It's more likely to still be 
a font problem. Or it could be some weird blip in her software. Hope she 
mails me back, because if the problem is something other than a font, I
can add the relevant new info to the website. :)

Thanks for trying though.:)

Hayley