Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 21 Jun 1998.
Outlook express I need help
alt.ascii-art
· 6 messages · 21 Jun 1998 - 10 Jul 1998
Does any body knows how to force Micro+ACQ-oft Out Look Epress to use 'Fixedsys' or any no proportionnal font when i read this news group? And may be if this time i dont work like the first how to force to send my "artwork" correctly? Tanks From France B-N |Bru...@wanadoo.fr (\"/) <-|Vlad my vampire hamster ( «Õ» ) |eatin' a nut once a year ©-º-® |best in FixedSys Win Font <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=utf-7 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.2106.6"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Fixedsys><FONT size=4>Does any body knows how to force Micro+ACQ-oft Out Look Epress to use 'Fixedsys'<BR>or any no proportionnal font when i read this news group?<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=4></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Fixedsys><FONT size=4>And may be if this time i dont work like the first how to force to send my "artwork" correctly?</FONT></FONT><FONT size=4></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Fixedsys><FONT size=4>Tanks From France</FONT></FONT><FONT size=4></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Fixedsys><FONT size=4><BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Fixedsys size=4> B-N |<A href="mailto:Bru...@wanadoo.fr">Bru...@wanadoo.fr</A> <BR> (\"/) <-|Vlad my vampire hamster <BR>( «Õ» ) |eatin' a nut once a year <BR> ©-º-® |best in FixedSys Win Font </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
.----- On Sun, 21 Jun 1998 01:25:50 +0200, Bruno asked: | |Does any body knows how to force Micro+-ACQ-oft Out Look Epress to use = |'Fixedsys' |or any no proportionnal font when i read this news group? | |And may be if this time i dont work like the first how to force to send = |my +ACI-artwork+ACI- correctly? |Tanks From France | | '---------------------------- .---- To get a Monospaced/Fixed Width font in MS Outlook Express --> |Click Tools/ Options. |Click the Read tab. |Click the Fonts button. |Select Courier or another proportional font for ALL of the listboxes. |Select Smallest. |Click OK. |Click OK. '------------------ (Thanks to aardvarko) -------------------------> |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
.----- On Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:19:08 GMT, Martin Atkins posted: | | |.---- To get a Monospaced/Fixed Width font in MS Outlook Express --> ||Click Tools/ Options. ||Click the Read tab. ||Click the Fonts button. ||Select Courier or another proportional font for ALL of the listboxes. ||Select Smallest. ||Click OK. ||Click OK. |'------------------ (Thanks to aardvarko) -------------------------> | '------------------------- Just shows you that noone reads this... I`ve just noticed a terrible mistake! Spot the difference... .---- To get a Monospaced/Fixed Width font in MS Outlook Express --> |Click Tools/ Options. |Click the Read tab. |Click the Fonts button. |Select Courier or another fixed width font for ALL of the listboxes. |Select Smallest. |Click OK. |Click OK. '------------------ (Thanks to aardvarko) -------------------------> <g> Martin |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
> .---- To get a Monospaced/Fixed Width font in MS Outlook Express --> > |Click Tools/ Options. > |Click the Read tab. > |Click the Fonts button. > |Select Courier or another fixed width font for ALL of the listboxes. ^^^^^^^ > |Select Smallest. ^^^^^^^^ Just wanted to point out the following for the benefit of the Yangsteins, i.e. those who love the 'steins. The 'steins look the best in the Monaco font, available on the Mac, with a point size 12. Second best is the Courier font, available on all computing platforms, again with a point size 12 Selecting smallest will usually give you too small a point size for the 'steins. > |Click OK. > |Click OK. =========================================================== [] [] [] ,, (__) As bride and groom we hail [] [] ( "> <" ) all devils with but one tail [] [] ,(> )><( <), [] [] ( ^^ ^^ ) http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/ [] [] [] ===========================================================
.----- On Tue, 07 Jul 1998 21:35:00 GMT, Pete Casso posted: |> .---- To get a Monospaced/Fixed Width font in MS Outlook Express --> |> |Click Tools/ Options. |> |Click the Read tab. |> |Click the Fonts button. |> |Select Courier or another fixed width font for ALL of the listboxes. | ^^^^^^^ |> |Select Smallest. | ^^^^^^^^ |Just wanted to point out the following for the benefit of the Yangsteins, i.e. |those who love the 'steins. |The 'steins look the best in the Monaco font, available on the Mac, with a |point size 12. |Second best is the Courier font, available on all computing platforms, again |with a point size 12 |Selecting smallest will usually give you too small a point size for the 'steins. | '--------------------- Well, the text was supplied by Aardvarko and wasn`t edited in any way... I suppose I`ll change that to Medium. I already corrected the proportional fonts! Seeeeyas Martin. |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
Martin Atkins wrote: > > .----- On Tue, 07 Jul 1998 21:35:00 GMT, Pete Casso posted: > |> .---- To get a Monospaced/Fixed Width font in MS Outlook Express --> > |> |Click Tools/ Options. > |> |Click the Read tab. > |> |Click the Fonts button. > |> |Select Courier or another fixed width font for ALL of the listboxes. > | ^^^^^^^ > |> |Select Smallest. > | ^^^^^^^^ > |Just wanted to point out the following for the benefit of the Yangsteins, i.e. > |those who love the 'steins. > |The 'steins look the best in the Monaco font, available on the Mac, with a > |point size 12. > |Second best is the Courier font, available on all computing platforms, again > |with a point size 12 > |Selecting smallest will usually give you too small a point size for the 'steins. > | > '--------------------- > > Well, the text was supplied by Aardvarko and wasn`t edited in any way... I > suppose I`ll change that to Medium. I already corrected the proportional fonts! I am not sure that everyone agrees with the change to medium. Large ascii pics often require the smallest size fonts for smooth appearance, small ascii pics often require somewhat larger/medium size fonts, since it is the mere few characters that makes the entire pic. I have repeatedly seen suggestions for a point size 9 for large ascii pics, and I am merely suggesting a point size 12 for the small 'steins. Perhaps a little discourse for the benefit of the Yangsteins. The smallest font size for good legibility used to be point size 9 for a 14" to 15" monitor at 600 x 800 resolution. Therefore, point size 9 used to be the smallest font size generally available, which was the reason for recommending it for large/larger ascii pics. These days, 19" to 21" monitors with 1200 x 1600 resolution are becoming available, and point size 6 has about the same, good legibility and is becoming available as well. However, as far as small ascii pics are concerned, these two options are NOT the same: 1) point size 12 at a monitor resolution setting of 1200 x 1600 2) point size 6 at a monitor resolution setting of 600 x 800 The physical size of the characters on the screen are the same, but the _shape_ of the characters on the screen are different, at least for all the fixed-width fonts that I examined (Monaco, Courier, and Courier New systematically, other fonts less systematically.) The 'steins look the best at font size 12 regardless of monitor size or resolution, they look distorted at font size 10 or 14, 16, 18, etc they look good at point size 9 but look quite/too small for usual monitor size/resolution settings (such as 14" or 15" monitor at 600 x 800 resolution.) This is the deeper reason for me to recommend a point size 12 for viewing the 'steins. While I am at it, I did look at font effects on large/larger ascii pics. As can be expected, the font effects are less pronounced, but not zero. For example, large dragons keep their threatening overall posture regardless of font, but their heads are necessarily smaller and there _are_ font effects. One of the dragons that I looked at got a cute facial expression with a certain font, quite a contradiction to the rest of the pic! (I can't recall whose dragon it was, or what exact font it was, that was quite a while ago) =========================================================== [] [] [] ,, (__) As bride and groom we hail [] [] ( "> <" ) all devils with but one tail [] [] ,(> )><( <), [] [] ( ^^ ^^ ) http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/ [] [] [] ===========================================================
Related ASCII art in the Gallery
Explore these categories from our collection of 11,000+ artworks:
|\/\/\/| | | | | | (o)(o) C _) | ,___| | / /____\
|HHHHH/"\"\HHHHHHH| |HH`\|_.-)'|/'dP,H| |Hb.`\\_/_//'.oddH| |HHHb|`.\/\,'|HHHH| |HHHHHb/\/\/|HHHHH| |"""""""""""""""""| | |"" /\ \ / |"" | | |__/--\ \/ __| |
_________
/___ ___\
//@@@\ /@@@\\
\\@@@/ \@@@//
\___ " ___/
| - |
\_/ jrjc ______
/|_||_\`.__
( _ _ _\
=`-(_)--(_)-'
hjw .="=. _/.-.-.\_ ( ( o o ) ) |/ " \| \'---'/jgs /`"""`\\
_________ | _____ |\ | |\ ___| | \ | | | | | | | | |___| | | \ | |____\| | \|_________| Andy Johnson
Make your own ASCII art
Turn images, text or 3D into ASCII, or draw your own – right in your browser.
About this thread.
These messages were posted publicly to the newsgroup
alt.ascii-art
in 1998 and are mirrored here unchanged as part of the Historic Archives – only email addresses are masked.
The artwork and text belong to their original authors: if you copy a piece, keep the artist's initials or signature intact and credit them where you can.
Are you one of the authors? Contact us to get your posts attributed, connected to your artist profile, or removed.
Report this message
Help us keep the archive clean and accurate. Reports are reviewed by a person – nothing is changed automatically.