Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 11 Nov 1997.
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· 6 messages · 11 Nov 1997 - 17 Nov 1997
I now have Matthew's latest alt.ascii-art FAQ at:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/faq.htm
I used orange lettering on a bright green backgound.... hyperlinked
everything backwards... and put the ASCII art in 'normal' text instead
of 'true type'.... makes for a very interesting site!
heehee-- just kidding- it is as Matthew sent it w/ a little extra bold-face.
Go ahead and shoot me-- I did add hyperlinks to two tutorial locations...
Ahhhhh-- feeling Matthew's wrath right now!
But it is up.
-joan
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>> I now have Matthew's latest alt.ascii-art FAQ at: >> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/faq.htm >I downloaded it from there now too. >Well I changed the background to black and made orange links indeed - and I >deleted this : ><BASE HREF="/users/cosc/undergrad/stage2/mpt26/doc/ascii-faq.html">----ere >waiting for someone to add those. yeah-- not sure what that tag was... thought it might've been there for a reason... My 'go to top' misread this tag... I'll be changing that on the next update... it's pretty minor-- at least all the text and pictures are OK... Let me know if you see anything else 'not quite right'... -joan -- /\\ //\ | \\ // | -= it's a bad hare day =- \ \\ // / \ \\ // / joan stark \ '""' / <spu...@juno.com> /__ __\ (##/==\##) ASCII ART GALLERY / \/ \ <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/> =\ __ /= jgs '-.__.-'
Spunk1111 wrote: > I now have Matthew's latest alt.ascii-art FAQ at: > http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/faq.htm I downloaded it from there now too. > I used orange lettering on a bright green backgound.... hyperlinked > everything backwards... and put the ASCII art in 'normal' text instead > of 'true type'.... makes for a very interesting site! > > heehee-- just kidding- it is as Matthew sent it w/ a little extra bold-face. Well I changed the background to black and made orange links indeed - and I deleted this : <P><BASE HREF="/users/cosc/undergrad/stage2/mpt26/doc/ascii-faq.html">----<A NAME="top"></A><BR> as well as your extra bold-face. Because my Lynx uses underline for bold-face and all the pictures look quite awfull. > Go ahead and shoot me-- I did add hyperlinks to two tutorial locations... Aha, at last. It seemed we were waiting for someone to add those. Thanx. :) Andreas _ | Ascii Dictionary (Collection, Links, ...) | o | http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~freise | o <<.|_ _| < > |\ | Alt.Ascii-Art FAQ : http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~freise/ascii/faq.html
Spunk1111 wrote: > > heehee-- just kidding- it is as Matthew sent it w/ a little extra > bold-face. Go ahead and shoot me-- I did add hyperlinks to two > tutorial locations... > Ahhhhh-- feeling Matthew's wrath right now! Me, wrathful? Surely not! BUT ... in the `How do I start drawing ASCII art?' section I do refer people to the links in the `Where can I find more ASCII art?' section for links to tutorials (where after a little clicking they could find both of your links), rather than putting the links in myself and turning the FAQ into a link-fest. Spunk1111 later wrote: > > Andreas Freise wrote: > > ... > > and I deleted this : > > <BASE HREF="/users/cosc/undergrad/stage2/mpt26/doc/ascii-faq.html"> > > ----ere waiting for someone to add those. > > yeah-- not sure what that tag was... thought it might've been > there for a reason... My 'go to top' misread this tag... I'll be > changing that on the next update... it's pretty minor-- at least > all the text and pictures are OK... Eee, oh no! /users/cosc/undergrad/stage2/mpt26/doc/ascii-faq.html is the filename which the HTML version of the FAQ has on my computer, and for some perverse reason Netscape Mail adds that BASE HREF tag to the file when I attach it, so that my computer is the only computer in the world for which those links work (not only the `Go to Top' ones, but also the go-to-question ones)! So ... delete that line, pronto! > Let me know if you see anything else 'not quite right'... > -joan Hmmm, well it seems that Netscape Gold (your graphical HTML editor -- sigh) won't accept <H1></H1>s inside <LI></LI>s. End result being that the headings for the questions in your version are really small ... But not to worry. Next year, in my spare time (eh?), I will write a Perl script which converts the HTML version of the FAQ to plain text (easier that than vice versa), mailxs the plain text version to Colin, then makes two copies of the HTML version, adds links to GeoCities and Joan's home page to one copy, mailxs that to Joan (mailx won't do anything silly like adding BASE HREF tags), finds the BODY tag in the other copy, changes it to Martin's favourite colours, adds a link to Martin's home page, and mailxs that to Martin, then makes me supper ... Because this will be my last message until next year (account closing in -- let's see -- 1 hour 20 minutes), I'll take this opportunity to wish you all ... .---. . * . . . . . . \___ ,-.,-.,-.,-.,-.,',-. . * . . \|-',-|`-.| || | `-. o . . o * `---'`-'`-^`-'`-'' ' `-' . . o . . . ,-'`. . o ,---. . __ ,'`. ..`. | -' ,-.,-.,-.|- .,-.,-.,-. _ \ \ ,','`v`. ..`. . . * | ,-'| |-'|-'| || || |`-. o \ * * ,',V--=-`.`. ..`. `---| ' `-'`-'`' '' '`-|`-' | * . ,',v-"-=--=-V.`. ..`. o ,-.| . ,| . _ .','=---=--=--!-`.`,v'| . `-+' * . `' ()* V|=--=+---+-=---|V-,=| . . . . . . . . . . o(\/) o . ||--=-|;*;|--==-|,"/. MT . . . . . . . . . . . ._. . . . .(V)\/ (V) . |=---|`*'|-=--=|,' . . . . . . .`-._ . ,-- . -' `----' . .H.|| .M. __|,--=|___|_=---' . --._.__,- . .. . . . . . _ . . . . .. . . . . . . . . __,---' . . . `--' `----. . . . . . . Hmmm, hard to put any detail into a wreath that small, isn't it? :-) Back in February ... -- __ _/\_\ Matthew Thomas, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ /\_\/_/ Still e-mail me at mpt26 @ student dot canterbury dot ac dot nz \/_/\_\ PS: <CODE> is for programming, and <XMP> has long been obsolete. \/_/ <PRE>formatted text is *exactly* what ASCII art is. That's that.
>BUT ... in the `How do I start drawing ASCII art?' section I do refer >people to the links in the `Where can I find more ASCII art?' section >for links to tutorials (where after a little clicking they could find >both of your links), rather than putting the links in myself and turning >the FAQ into a link-fest True-- except that if you're really concerned about it becoming a "link-fest"-- we might really want to consider if we need ALL of the FIGlet sites-- there are quite a few... I'm also not that concerned about the links that I added going bad-- one is at my site, and the other is with Allen Mullen. And as far as I know, Allen intends on keeping his sites going... I just had email with him this past week- end. BTW, I was informed that the FIGlet homepage is gone... is that true? I can't get into it... http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/figlet.html Has it been moved? Does anyone know to where? >So ... delete that line, pronto! Will do.... >l it seems that Netscape Gold (your graphical HTML editor -- >sigh) won't accept ...snip...End result being that >the headings for the questions in your version are really small ... No problem, I'll just add some <h2> headlines </h2> ! -joan -- _.-----._ * .' .-'``|'. * / / -*- \ joan stark | ; <{ | ; | spu...@juno.com -*- | _\ | | -*- | ; _\ -*- | ; | \ \ | -*- / ASCII ART GALLERY: * jgs '._ '.__ |_.' http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/ '-----'
>> we might really want to consider >> if we need ALL of the FIGlet sites-- there are quite a few... >True enough but now they are added and why remove some >of those without knowing which will be valid tomorrow and >which won't. Actually I think all of them are fine... I was just bringing up a point-- Adding 2 more links to a new topic is not a big deal-- especially when I know these will be valid links for quite a while. >True as well. I hope we can count on you two for a while. ;) I'm not burned out yet! It'll be my 2 year anniversary of discovering ASCII art later this month! :) >> BTW, I was informed that the FIGlet homepage is gone... >> is that true? I can't get into it... >> http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/figlet.html >Hm, must be your server then. It's working fine for >me. Now, recently and every time I tried meanwhile. ;) That is odd-- Allen Mullen said that he had difficulty too... and there was someone else who couldn't get into a figlet site (not sure if it the same one or not)... Wonder if something is going on here... >But this might be a general question about deleting >and/or adding URLs and maintaining the FAQ. >..snip.... We should try to check it from time to >time but not to change it that often. What do you >think? I agree. The information isn't going to change... it'll just be a matter of checking for dead links. -joan -- .-~~-. .--. / / "\ /| joan stark / \ | \ \// spu...@juno.com |/\ | \_/-'..' A | / || ASCII ART GALLERY: jgs |__||__|| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/
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