Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 25 Aug 1997.
Help! ascii art in an HTML page
alt.ascii-art
· 3 messages · 25 Aug 1997 - 27 Aug 1997
In article <3400ba50.11527318@207.14.113.2>, com...@home.bed (comatose) writes: >I want to put some ascii art on a web page but it comes out looking >squished. Do I need to specify a specific character set in the header >or something? make sure you format the ASCII art... <pre> ... your picture </pre> this will do the trick. You may also want to boldface the ASCII art-- it comes out a little more defined-- although on Lynx it will look underlined. -joan -- -./\\_//\.- -`/ .-.-. \`- joan stark <spu...@juno.com> |=|__|__|=| |=\_o,o_/=| ASCII ART GALLERY: \-(_.^._)-/ <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373> jgs `-.___.-`
In article <199...@ladder02.news.aol.com>, spu...@aol.com (Spunk1111) writes: >make sure you format the ASCII art... > > ... your picture > > >this will do the trick. > > it didn't post.... you need to put the <pre> and </pre> before and after your artwork... And just in case, this doesn't work again... write the following before and after the ASCII pic but use the pointy brackets < > (pre) picture (/pre) -joan -- /\-/\ /o o \ joan stark <spu...@juno.com> _ =\ Y =/-~~~~~~-,______________________________________________/ ) '^--' _______________________________________________/ \ / || |---'\ \ ASCII ART GALLERY: jgs (_(__| ((__| <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/>
comatose (com...@home.bed) wrote: : I want to put some ascii art on a web page but it comes out looking : squished. Do I need to specify a specific character set in the header : or something? try using the <PRE></PRE> tag. Works for me.. ___ n. zapala net...@friko.onet.pl network administrator
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