viewing ASCII images

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Daniel J. Parker wrote:

> when I look at a lot of displayed stuff, I cannot see it clearly.  Should I 
> be reading text a certain way?

Turn your monitor on, that should help.

    -Nana

when I look at a lot of displayed stuff, I cannot see it clearly.  Should I 
be reading text a certain way?

Tks in advance

Dan

Daniel J. Parker wrote:
> 
> when I look at a lot of displayed stuff, I cannot see it clearly.  Should I
> be reading text a certain way?
> 

Hint -> Read this document:  http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/faq.htm

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 ( _`.'. -   'o` ) \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _  ( 'o`   - .`.'_ )
 _\.'_'      _.-'   \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` |  `-._      `_`./_
( \`. )    //\`      \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_|    '/\\    ( .'/ )
 \_`-'`---'\\__,                                       ,__//`---'`-'_/
  \`        `-\    uggc://jjj.yhqq.yhgu.fr/hfref/ix/    /-'        '/
   ` _____________________ r93...@fz.yhgu.fr ____________________ '
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.------------------ Daniel J. Parker <djp...@indy.net> wrote...
| 
| when I look at a lot of displayed stuff, I cannot see it clearly.  Should
I 
| be reading text a certain way?
| 
| Tks in advance
| 
| Dan
| 
'-------------------------------------

What you need is a fixed-width font! :)

I`m sorry, but I don`t recognise your newsreader`s name so I don`t know
what OS you are running...

On Win95/3:   FixedSys
              Courier New
              Lucida Console
              Courier
              Topaz New
              Monotype.com

On Amiga:     Topaz (in the ROM of the machine)
              Courier

Other fonts I remember but don`t know where they come from: Monaco,
Terminal (But not the Win95 version!)

Any font that makes these two lines the same length should be ok:
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

and a test picture:

  |||||
 | o o |
 |  >  |        .--- Can you see me ok?
 | \_/ |   ____/
  \___/
 __| |__

(It`s my ascii 'portrait')

Hope this helps...


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| |  |||||  ROT13 | |              |  \/  |  |    |   /   \
| | | o o |ENCODED| |             /        \_\____/  /     \
| | |  >  | REPLY | |     ___-]=-' - -  ------------------------->
| | | \_/ |ADDRESS| |    /Martin Atkins mart.atkins @ bigfoot.com
| |  \___/ -------| |   /A computer screen reads...
| |_______________| |\_/   __________________
|                :: |     |  ______________  |                   
|___________________|     | | Press any key| | Comment from user:       
   |_____________|        | | when ready...| |  "How do I know   
  /_______________\       | |______________| |   when it`s ready?"
  |_______________|-------|_________________||------------------->
                           _|______________|_ 
                           '----------------' 

The face seems offset, to me.

JRO

.------------- Jonathon R. Oglesbee <ogl...@fullnet.net> wrote...
| The face seems offset, to me.
| 
| JRO
| 
'----------------------------

Does it? Oh dear....

  |||||
 | o o |        .--- What about this time?
 |  >  |       /
 | \_/ |  ----'
  \___/
 __| |__
/  \_/  \



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You're using OE. It rips up leading spaces. The solution is to put an
extra space before everything. Dig the sig, man, it'll tell you. ;)

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>
>.------------- Jonathon R. Oglesbee <ogl...@fullnet.net> wrote...
>| The face seems offset, to me.
>|
>| JRO
>|
>'----------------------------
>
>Does it? Oh dear....
>
>  |||||
> | o o |        .--- What about this time?
> |  >  |       /
> | \_/ |  ----'
>  \___/
> __| |__
>/  \_/  \
>
>
>
>--
>    |||||     ________________________________
>   | o o |
>   |  >  |     |\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _    A.K.A
>   | \_/ |     |  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>      M G A
>    \___/     ________________________________
>     | |                       __         _
> ._ _  _..__|_  _._|_| o._  _ /  \|_ o __|__  __|_  _ _ ._ _
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aardvarko <*REMOVE ME*aar...@geocities.com> > wrote in message
<69a7e2$js9$3...@usenet85.supernews.com>...
>You're using OE. It rips up leading spaces. The solution is to put an
>extra space before everything. Dig the sig, man, it'll tell you. ;)

Standard convention is already to show extra spaces before, to signify
preformatted text.

Amazing Microsoft would know something like that, eh?

>>BKNambo, who wonders if upgrading OE took you out of my killfile... Hm.
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>Standard convention is already to show extra spaces before, to signify
>preformatted text.

For ASCII art, or the writing world in general?

>>>BKNambo, who wonders if upgrading OE took you out of my killfile...
Hm.

Um. Oh. Comforting. :)

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Not quite... you'll notice that my sig has been contorted quite a lot;
what seemed to fix it for me with OE was putting an extra space before
everything.

>  |||||
> | o o |        .--- What about this time?
> |  >  |       /
> | \_/ |  ----'
>  \___/
> __| |__
>/  \_/  \

Quoted it looks fine.

  |||||
 | o o |        .--- What about this time?
 |  >  |       /
 | \_/ |  ----'
  \___/
 __| |__
/  \_/  \

This usually gets distorted.

   |||||
  | o o |        .--- What about this time?
  |  >  |       /
  | \_/ |  ----'
   \___/
  __| |__
 /  \_/  \

Is this?

[wishing he had something better than OE...]

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 \_,_/\_,_/_/  \_,_/|___/\_,_/_/ /_/\_\\___/
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  art letters, e-mail me with figlet in the subject line

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>
>
>.------------- Jonathon R. Oglesbee <ogl...@fullnet.net> wrote...
>| The face seems offset, to me.
>|
>| JRO
>|
>'----------------------------
>
>Does it? Oh dear....
>
>  |||||
> | o o |        .--- What about this time?
> |  >  |       /
> | \_/ |  ----'
>  \___/
> __| |__
>/  \_/  \
>
>
>
>--
>    |||||     ________________________________
>   | o o |
>   |  >  |     |\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _    A.K.A
>   | \_/ |     |  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>      M G A
>    \___/     ________________________________
>     | |                       __         _
> ._ _  _..__|_  _._|_| o._  _ /  \|_ o __|__  __|_  _ _ ._ _
> | | |(_||  |_o(_| |_|<|| |_>| (|/|_)|(_||(_)(_)|_o(_(_)| | |
>                              \__      _|
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