Any help would be humbly appreciated

>Subject: Any help would be humbly appreciated
>From: "jo firey" <JO_...@prodigy.net>
>Date: 3/14/99 5:28 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <7chdev$31q8$1...@newssvr03-int.news.prodigy.com>
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>I've been trying to explain ascii-art to my aunt but don't really know =
>enuf to help.  I know most needs to be viewed using a fixed font.  What =
>font and size are recommended?  I cannot figure out how to get my =
>browser to use a given font.  (It changed on me today and then changed =
>back and I haven't a clue why)  So far if a message on the NG looks =
>interesting I select it, then full screen then mark it to forward at =
>which point I can select the entire message and edit. =20
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>There has got to be an easier way?  =20
>

     The easiest way to point anyone to ASCII art is to send them to
dejanews.com and read the ALT.ASCII-ART newsgroup from there. They use
fixed-width fonts for their postings. Most news readers should be set to at
least one f-w font for this page.

>The fonts I have that seem to be fixed are Lucida console, OCR a, =
>prestige, and courier new.  What is recommended?

Courier New for me.
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>Most news readers should be set to at

I meant Web Browser, not News Reader.
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Finally, I set the proportional font to courier new as well as the
fixed on on by browser, shut it down and restarted and now can read
the newsgroup OK.  Seems the browser is determined to use the
proportional font to read no matter what.

Thanks  (I'll check out dejanews in the morning)
Lester5374 wrote in message
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>>Most news readers should be set to at
>
>I meant Web Browser, not News Reader.
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>Lester||||AMC
>*Mythos Online : Internet Magazine of Lovecraftian Horror - Dead
Alice*
>http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/redlion/157/deadal.htm
>*Visit my web page ANSI/ASCII/Fonts*
>http://members.aol.com/lester5374/

>No, that's Joan's site. Veronica's site is at:
>
>http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/vk/



Oooops <g>

Sorry Joan!

Here.. have a delicious letter "O" all to yourself.. its very tastey.. try
the right hand side first


O




Andrew

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You should also not post to newsgroups in HTML format.  If you use Outlook
Express, select "Plain Text" from the "Format" menu in the post you are
writing.

Reading the FAQ (posted regularly here) is also a good place to start.  See
Veronika's site at http://www.ascii-art.com !

Andrew.

Andrew Carpenter wrote:
> See Veronika's site at http://www.ascii-art.com !
> 

No, that's Joan's site. Veronica's site is at:

http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/vk/


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.----- On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 14:28:16 -0800, jo firey posted:
|
|I've been trying to explain ascii-art to my aunt but don't really know =
|enuf to help.  I know most needs to be viewed using a fixed font.  What =
|font and size are recommended?  I cannot figure out how to get my =
|browser to use a given font.  (It changed on me today and then changed =
|back and I haven't a clue why)  So far if a message on the NG looks =
|interesting I select it, then full screen then mark it to forward at =
|which point I can select the entire message and edit. =20
|
|There has got to be an easier way?  =20
|
|The fonts I have that seem to be fixed are Lucida console, OCR a, =
|prestige, and courier new.  What is recommended?
|
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Go for Lucida Console... Works for me :o)

As for convincing Outlook Express to use it... well, that's a toughy if it
won't stay on Lucida Console. I have heard in the past of certain ISPs
implementing defaults that are reinstated each time a browser/email program
is started, but I can't help you with that bit.

-Martin
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