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some of these don't look good to me. I think I need to change the
font in my free agent news reader. any suggestions?
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On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 15:55:15 GMT, mwc...@hotmail.com (overcooked) wrote: >some of these don't look good to me. I think I need to change the >font in my free agent news reader. any suggestions? I have fixed-body font set to 'terminal - 9pt', and it works great. Alan My real address is alanp @ netcom.ca (without spaces) but I'm sick of email spam.
overcooked wrote: > > some of these don't look good to me. I think I need to change the > font in my free agent news reader. any suggestions? > ------_--_-overcooked > -----------------overcooked > > "don't you try to look behind my eye-yize > you don't wanna know what they have see-een" > -FZ The fonts gotta be fixed width eg: courier, courier new, fixed, monaco. Try one of those. Greetz, -- _____ _ _ _ ,-'`. | __| |_|_|_____ ___ ___ _| | _ _ _ _ ___ ,'`.,-'`. |__ | | | | _| . | . | | \ / \ |\| ' | /`.,'`.,-'`. |_____|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| |___|___| |_/ \_/ | | | (`./`-,'`.,-'`. _ _ _ _ _ _ \.\.( `,'`.,-' Herman Hiddema |_) /| |\| | / ` )`\ |.|`,' Venuslaan 147 c | /"| | | | \_, ,' \/`) /.| 9742 KN Groningen ,-'"`-. / \,'\/`( ( The Netherlands //// / @ @ \ \\\\ \,'`./`./`.\ tel. 050-5775373 \ :=| ,._,. |=: / \ ,'\ /\ ) mailto:csg...@wing.rug.nl || ,\ \_../ /. || \ ,; \,' http://huizen.dds.nl/~shimrod/ ||','`-._))'`.`|| `: \.' `-' (/ `-' `./ Now there's a man who knows where his towel is!
i have looked though most of my fonts on Win95 and i cant seem to find one
that is fixed-width, i might of but it will take me a hour or 2 to search
though my fonts again. i didnt attach any ASCII pics to hre in fear they
will look really bad when i fix them to my font i have on :(
Please Help,
Adondi
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"Adondi" <ado...@cisnet.com> writes: >i have looked though most of my fonts on Win95 and i cant seem to find one >that is fixed-width, i might of but it will take me a hour or 2 to search >though my fonts again. i didnt attach any ASCII pics to hre in fear they >will look really bad when i fix them to my font i have on :( >Please Help, >Adondi You know what would be useful? A biiiig list of fixed width fonts common to windows, so that ppl can see straight away whether they have one, without haveing to fiddle around to see which one works. I think I would have appreciated one when I started out in ascii. As it was I was using courier anyway, so I was ok, but like some ppl have said recently, those serifs can be annoying. Can't make such a list myself, because I don't have a PC or even a mac. :) BTW does anyone know of any fixed width fonts apart from Topax and courier for the amiga that I could get? *cheers* Hayley -- |_| _ | _ | | _ |_ _ _ _ |_ _ | |(_|(_||(/_(_| |/\|(_||\(/_| )/ )| )(_|\/\/ (| (| **Flump's Ascii Collection**: http://www.xs4all.nl/~klr _==_ _ _==_ _ _==_ _ _==_ _ _==_ _ _==_ _ _,(",)|_| _,(",)|_| _,(",)|_| _,(",)|_| _,(",)|_| _,(",)|_| \/. \-| \/. \-| \/. \-| \/. \-| \/. \-| \/. \-| __( : )|____( : )|____( : )|____( : )|____( : )|____( : )|__ "I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life." - Calvin & Hobbes
Didja hear what "Adondi" <ado...@cisnet.com> said? }i have looked though most of my fonts on Win95 and i cant seem to find one }that is fixed-width, i might of but it will take me a hour or 2 to search }though my fonts again. i didnt attach any ASCII pics to hre in fear they }will look really bad when i fix them to my font i have on :( The font I usually work with is 10-point Courier New, which I have found on almost every machine I've ever used. Don't know if they're available in Win95 (don't know why they wouldn't be, though), but FixedSys and Terminal work as well. -- .--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--. / ../ ../ ,-' ,-' ,-' ,-' ,-' ,-' ,-' ,-' ,-' ,-' ,-' ,./ .. \ \ \/ /\/ /`--'`--'`--'`--'`--'`--'`--'`--'`--'`--'`--'\/ /\/ / \ \/\ \/ Kirsten M. Berry -- kir...@hooked.net \ \/\ \/ /\ \/\ \ http://www.hooked.net/~kirib/ /\ \/\ \ / /\/ /\.--.,--.,--.,--.,--.,--.,--.,--.,--.,--..--./ /\/ /\ \ \ `' /`' ,-' ,-' ,-' ,-' ,-' ,-' ,-' ,-' ,-' ,-' ,-' /`' /`' / `--'`--'`--'`--'`--'`--'`--'`--'`--'`--'`--'`--'`--'`--'`--' -AF
flu...@quadrant.xs4all.nl.spambgone (Hayley Jane Wakenshaw) has written: >You know what would be useful? A biiiig list of fixed width fonts common >to windows, so that ppl can see straight away whether they have one, Well, i've looked through my biiiig list of fonts, but couldn't find many non-proportional ones. :( ! Courier --- serif ! Courier New --- serif ! Fixedsys --- sans serif --- Notepad ! GeniusTIL --- sans serif ! GeniusTTF --- sans serif Tschusz, mic PS for WP users: view ASCII art in the "forbidden" (8-bit) characters using these fixed width fonts. :) ! WP BoxDrawing --- "squares" ! WP Greek Courier --- "symbols" ! WP MultinationalA Courier --- "accents" ! WP MultinationalB Courier --- "accents"
Adondi (ado...@cisnet.com) wrote:
: i have looked though most of my fonts on Win95 and i cant seem to find one
: that is fixed-width, i might of but it will take me a hour or 2 to search
: though my fonts again. i didnt attach any ASCII pics to hre in fear they
: will look really bad when i fix them to my font i have on :(
: Please Help,
: Adondi
:
:
Hi!
try courier_new
or any "tt" fonts . i.e - true-type fonts
Good luck!
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In article <691ue6$a9q$1...@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>, sri...@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (( ~._.~ ) ) wrote: > > Adondi (ado...@cisnet.com) wrote: > : i have looked though most of my fonts on Win95 and i cant seem to find one > : that is fixed-width, i might of but it will take me a hour or 2 to search > : though my fonts again. i didnt attach any ASCII pics to hre in fear they > : will look really bad when i fix them to my font i have on :( > : Please Help, > : Adondi > > Hi! > try courier_new > > or any "tt" fonts . i.e - true-type fonts > > Good luck! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > you can meet (me) Jey at http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~srik > call me via je...@technologist.com > **************************************************************************** Nix on the true-type fonts! Of the TT (true-type) fonts available to me (Albertus, Antique Olive, Arial, Book Antiqua, CG Times, Comic Sans MS, Coronet, Courier, Impact, Letter Gothic, Lucida Handwriting, Monospaced, OCR-A, OCR-B, Quick type, Quick type condensed, Quick type mono, Times new Roman, Univers, Verdana, to name but a few), the ONLY fixed-width fonts are: Courier, Letter Gothic, Monospaced, OCR-A, OCR-B, Quick Type Mono The rest are most definitely not fixed-width fonts. Here is a surer method. (from the FAQ - you can read the whole thing at http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~freise/ascii/faq.html ) : If you're not sure if your font is fixed-width or not, check the : following two lines and see if they're the same length. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii| mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm| : If they aren't, find the option in your news reader which lets you : specify which font to use. If you just have a choice between : proportional and fixed width, choose fixed width. If you have a : choice of which font to use, try different ones until you find a : fixed-width one (using the `i's and `m's above as a guide). Popular : fixed width fonts include Courier, Monaco, and Fixedsys; anything : with `fixed', `terminal', ___ !/\ __ _/ | ---%^^^, /\ | | / \ | | | |_____| / \/ > /__\ | | | __ |__| | --- == > / \ | | | | | | | [_____] __>,^ / \ \__/ \__/ | | . ejm97 | | //| | What's this I see in the FAQ??? An _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ ( ____ \( ____ )( ____ )( ___ )( ____ ) | ( \/| ( )|| ( )|| ( ) || ( )| | (__ | (____)|| (____)|| | | || (____)| | __) | __)| __)| | | || __) | ( | (\ ( | (\ ( | | | || (\ ( | (____/\| ) \ \__| ) \ \__| (___) || ) \ \__ (_______/|/ \__/|/ \__/(_______)|/ \__/ (epic font from FIGLET) ___ / I had to cut the following _/ | \,^%--- away from my FAQ quote: |_____| <_ \ --- == >/ " or `tt' in its name will [_____] __>,^ also probably be fixed-width." ejm97 | | //| | NOTE: If you hit the reply button, add an "e" to the "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers. -- ___ / www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/ _/ | \,^%--- cq5...@freenet.toronto.on.ca |_____| <_ \ I can't believe llizard aka ejm --- == >/ we missed such a [_____] __>,^ g l a r i n g ejm97 | | //| | E R R O R
Most newer proggies, such as OE, pop up a nifty list when you try to
change the font for Fixed Width messages.
Couple more:
Lucida Console (my current)
Topaz New
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>flu...@quadrant.xs4all.nl.spambgone (Hayley Jane Wakenshaw) has written:
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>>You know what would be useful? A biiiig list of fixed width fonts
common
>>to windows, so that ppl can see straight away whether they have one,
>
>Well, i've looked through my biiiig list of fonts, but couldn't find
many
>non-proportional ones. :(
>
>! Courier --- serif
>! Courier New --- serif
>! Fixedsys --- sans serif --- Notepad
>! GeniusTIL --- sans serif
>! GeniusTTF --- sans serif
>
>Tschusz,
>mic
>
>PS for WP users: view ASCII art in the "forbidden" (8-bit) characters
>using these fixed width fonts. :)
>
>! WP BoxDrawing --- "squares"
>! WP Greek Courier --- "symbols"
>! WP MultinationalA Courier --- "accents"
>! WP MultinationalB Courier --- "accents"
>
.--------- Adondi <ado...@cisnet.com> wrote...
| i have looked though most of my fonts on Win95 and i cant seem to find
one
| that is fixed-width, i might of but it will take me a hour or 2 to search
| though my fonts again. i didnt attach any ASCII pics to hre in fear they
| will look really bad when i fix them to my font i have on :(
| Please Help,
| Adondi
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The win95 section of my 'quick list' of fonts...
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Win95: FixedSys
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llizard wrote: > > ___ / I had to cut the following > _/ | \,^%--- away from my FAQ quote: > |_____| <_ \ > --- == >/ " or `tt' in its name will > [_____] __>,^ also probably be fixed-width." > ejm97 | | //| | > I don't know anything about tt-fonts but you are right I've got more proportional tt-fonts as well. So I changed the FAQ on my site (if anyone cares) to : (in Section 3) :If they aren't, find the option in your news reader which lets :you specify which font to use. If you just have a choice between :proportional and fixed width, choose fixed width. If you have a :choice :of which font to use, try different ones until you find :a fixed-width one (using the `i's and `m's above as a guide). :Popular fixed width fonts include Courier, Monaco, and Fixedsys; :anything with `fixed' or `terminal' in its name will also probably :be fixed-width. (I just deleted the 'tt' bit. That easy...) :) Andreas .-------. ( Read \ . ( the FAQ \ \ .---. `---------`- G |Yep| ( ) ., /---' _/Xx/ "\ ASCII Art Dictionary : .+' / /`" - http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~freise ( |_`_( ) |: | | Alt.Ascii-Art FAQ : ' ` ' - http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~freise/ascii/faq.html
Hi all, really new to ascii art and this newsgroup. How much time does it take to create ascii arts on average? It needs lots of imagination! How do I start create one?
.----- On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:20:54 GMT, Ruler posted: |Hi all, really new to ascii art and this newsgroup. |How much time does it take to create ascii arts on average? It needs |lots of imagination! How do I start create one? '-------------------------------- I usually spend about half an hour to three quarters on a picture of a person, where I like to get it looking right, but other pictures tend to range from 15 minutes to half an hour. It took me longer when I first started, but now that I've got the hang of which symbols make which shapes and where they are on the keyboard, I don't seem to thing "quote-dash-fullstop-underscore" I think "diagonal line" and type out "-._ .. it just takes practice. You can find tutorials and information in the ASCIIArt Documents Archive: I usually give out the geographically nearest mirror to the poster, but since your message headers give very little away I'm assuming Canada based on the organisation location... in which case your nearest is my mirror in Seattle I believe... http://martweb.hypermart.net/ada/ or if banner ads irritate you (they won't appear on the documents themselves) you can try this UK mirror... http://voices.vossnet.co.uk/a/atkins/ada/ Have fun, and post some pictures if you are bitten by the ASCII Art bug! Regards, -Martin |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
Felicity Shagwell wrote: > Hey I'm new at this newsgroup and ascii art. Is there a website where I > could maybe learn the basics or something on the net....anything to get > me started would be most appreciated. I personally like Hayley's "How to make ASCII" at http://www.xs4all.nl/~klr/howto.html :) Andreas .---...__ .. ____ '| ASCII `:;=-. http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~freise ___ || ART )| [) http://www.ascii-art.de __________ `==-...___''.-.| ______________________________________________ ((o)(o)'`-(o)'__________ """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""a:f
Felicity Shagwell wrote: > Hey I'm new at this newsgroup and ascii art. Is there a website where I > could maybe learn the basics or something on the net....anything to get > me started would be most appreciated. My chat is to ascii art what a pub in England is to those who wish to learn English (or equivalent for other country and language) - a nice and relaxed way to get that "daily excercise" needed to develop real, "deep", skills. As usual, the invitation goes to all of you! :-) -- (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ /|__--__ . __--__ |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ .' /| /|:| \ .' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, - `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -
Hey I'm new at this newsgroup and ascii art. Is there a website where I could maybe learn the basics or something on the net....anything to get me started would be most appreciated. Thanx! Kelly =)~
Felicity Shagwell wrote: > Hey I'm new at this newsgroup and ascii art. Is there a website where I > could maybe learn the basics or something on the net....anything to get > me started would be most appreciated. > > Thanx! Kelly =)~ I believe you'll find everything you need in the FAQ (what to do, what not to do, tutorials etc). It's posted somewhere in the newsgroup. Have fun, joris
.----- On Thu, 05 Aug 1999 09:30:47 GMT, Felicity Shagwell posted: |Hey I'm new at this newsgroup and ascii art. Is there a website where I |could maybe learn the basics or something on the net....anything to get |me started would be most appreciated. '-------------------------------- That's exactly what the ASCIIArt Documents Archive is for... :o) You nearest mirror is probably the Hypermart-based one in Seattle... http://martweb.hypermart.net/ada/ but if the popup ads annoy you, check out the 'International Mirrors' page for some alternative sites. There are no popup ads on the documents themselves, because they are plain text. (I will remove the popup ads soon, when I get time to add the ads to the bottom of the pages) -Martin |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
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