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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 7 Mar 1995.
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Answer: WWW page ascii drawings

Answer: WWW page ascii drawings

alt.ascii-art · 1 message · 7 Mar 1995
Bob Allison <bob...@wwa.com> ASCII art 7 Mar 1995 22:04 · raw headers · report
Christopher B. Sobczak <not...@prairienet.org> wrote:
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>	I'm in the process of making a WWW page, and I would love to include
>some ascii art, but I cant seem to get it to work. It loads up all wirds (no
>spaces, type look)... I use a window's Hyper Txt Editor, and windows
>cant show my ascii stuff either.. how am I saving this wrong? I use
>the draw.. thanks for any help!

   To use ASCII art on the Web, you need to have three things:


1  ASCII art that will look good displayed dark on light, as that is how 
   it will be displayed on most graphical browsers.  And it should be very 
   good ASCII art too, as you are competing with GIFs on the Web.

2  You need to use <pre> and </pre> tags so that the ASCII art is 
   displayed as preformatted text, and is not wrapped.

3  You need a monospaced font for ASCII art to look right.

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