X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,eb98b615024145d8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-05-27 12:48:26 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!ruhr.de!larry.westfalen.de!beansidhe!soeren From: soeren@beansidhe.ms.sub.org (Soeren M Soerries) Subject: Re: pls help improve 3-line font Message-ID: <1994May27.052119.9171@beansidhe.ms.sub.org> Organization: in the future, we will all be piglet. Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 05:21:19 GMT References: <1994May23.152720.32287@beansidhe.ms.sub.org> Lines: 36 flee@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes: >Yes. When good little children eat all their vegetables, then, on the >night of the blue moon, when everyone is fast asleep, the Bean Fairies >tunnel their way up from their dark, cool caverns beneath the earth. >Pop! Up through the grass, they sprout like little mushrooms with >bright red caps. And carefully through the windows, to where the good >children sleep, to leave little boxes of tofu beside their pillows. >Bad children get tofu without the boxes. /me ROTFL! >About the 3-line font. '"' is probably the best character for filling >the upper half of a space. Since this isn't adequate, how about avoid >using the upper half. Something like this: > ooo, ooooo ,ooo, oo oo,ooo, oo ooo, oo oo ooooo > d8oob d8oo d8oodP dP8dP 8oo, dP dP dP d8odP d8oo >d8ooP'd8ooo dP dP dP 8P booP'dP d8ooP'dP dP d8ooo That's it! Thanks ooo. ooooo ,ooo. oo oo ,ooo. * ooo. oo oo ooooo d8oob d8oo d8oodP dP8dP 8oo. op dP db d8odP d8oo d8ooP'd8ooo dP dP dP 8P booP' dP d8ooP dP dP d8ooo >If you want more definition, shift to a different style. Use >line-drawing characters, like this: Uh, no, it doesn't look half as nice on my screen that way... ...but maybe I just prefer round forms in letters. Soeren / iso latin-1: S�ren -- Send money by fax to +49-55-1487-719 "one planet is all you get."