Xpn with ascii-art group

Anyone using XPN as a client? It underlines everything between _and_ for
me. Which screws up ascii arts. Anyone knows how to turn this off?

And to not post compleately off-topic here is jam-ascii-art.

Pinocio
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In alt.ascii-art, Daniel Berger  <jac...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> Anyone using XPN as a client? It underlines everything between _and_ for
> me. Which screws up ascii arts. Anyone knows how to turn this off?

Several clients do that. And other effects. I've never used XPN, so I
don't know how to disable it there.

*Bold* (with asterisks)
/Italics/ (with slashes)
_Underlining_ (with underscores)

ObAA: Here's a bit of practical ASCII art I did several years ago.

One of the wheels on my bike had become fairly badly warped.
Investigation revealed a broken spoke. So I called up my friend
Marc, who is much better at bike repair than I am, and talked
to him about it. 

The general theory is that the spokes alternate going to the left
and right side in the center, so when one is loose or broken the
tightly attached spokes from the other side pull the rim in that
direction.

                  _
                /' '\
                |. .|  <- Tire
                 \~/   <- Rim
                  T    <- Spoke nipples
                  |
                 .^,   <- Spokes (two, overlapping at top)
                 | |
                .| |,
                |   |
                [===]  <- Axel

Above, the wheel in cross-section. Below in profile (imagine it to
be rounded instead of straight -- I'm being lazy with the ascii-art).

Key:     !   nipple of broken spoke
         T   nipple of incidental spoke
         7   nipple of spoke to tighten
         Y   nipple of spoke to loosen

  #^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#
                    INFLATE TO 85 PSI
  _____________________________________________________
   T    Y    7    Y    7    !    7    Y    7    Y    T
   |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
   |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
       (a)  (b)  (c)  (d)       (d)  (c)  (b)  (a)

  a: loosen a very little
  b: tighten a little
  c: loosen a little
  b: tighten most           (1/2 turn or so)

All fine in theory, in practice it is easy to lose track of
whether clockwise or counterclockwise is tightening, and what
needs to be done to what spoke. Marc told me that he had never
successfully 'trued' a wheel himself. He always made things
worse. 

I managed to keep myself from being confused by using a Sharpie
(permanent felt tip marker) to note on the rim what needed to be
done for each spoke. So after about twenty minutes of planning
and work my wheel is a lot more balanced.

Elijah
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finds sharpies indispensible

Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:

> In alt.ascii-art, Daniel Berger  <jac...@yahoo.de> wrote:
>> Anyone using XPN as a client? It underlines everything between _and_ for
>> me. Which screws up ascii arts. Anyone knows how to turn this off?
>
> Several clients do that. And other effects. I've never used XPN, so I
> don't know how to disable it there.
>
> *Bold* (with asterisks)
> /Italics/ (with slashes)
> _Underlining_ (with underscores)

This thread prompted me to configure this specifically for
alt.ascii-art in Gnus.  Thank you.

The *really* annoying thing with Gnus is that it highlights quotations
in different colours depending on the quotation depths by default.
This produced some *really* _interesting_ (read: annoying) colours in
the artwork.  Luckily I've figured out how to configure this behaviour
per-group.


Johann

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