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From: boba@gagme.wwa.com (Bob Allison)
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Subject: Re: pls help improve 3-line font
Date: 29 May 1994 10:57:15 -0500
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In article <FLEE.94May26003256@guardian.cse.psu.edu>,
Felix Lee <flee@cse.psu.edu> wrote:
>>        Bean Fairies? *Shrug*
>
>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.
>
>Seriously, "beansidhe" is the Gaelic root for "banshee".
>
>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
>
>If you want more definition, shift to a different style.  Use
>line-drawing characters, like this:
>
>  //==, //=== ,===,  //| // //==, == //==,  //  // //===
> //==< //==  //==// //||//  `==, // //  // //==// //== 
>//==='//=== //  // // |// `==// // //===' //  // //===

   Here's a slight varianion.  All I've done is use the g to reach down 
and close up the gaps.

  goog, goooo ,goo,  g,  ,g, goo, ,g goo,  ,g ,g goooo
 g8o8  g8oo  g8oogP gPN,gP  8og, gP gP gP g8ogP g8oo
doooP'd8ooo dP  dP dP 'dP  booP'dP d8ooP'dP dP d8ooo

   I'm not sure if that's an improvement or what.

   Maybe somebody else can diddle it some more.  Small 2, 3 and 4 line 
alphabets are interesting because of their use on system allowing only 4 
lines on automatically included sigs.

--
  .  . .. ... .:.. ...:..::.:::.::::::::.:::.::.:..:...:.. ..:. ... .. .. .  .
 ------  ---=- .=-==-= .=#==##= :=##### .##=#= =##==#= . ==-=--  -=-  ---  ---
------- ---=-= -=-====# =#==#=#= #=###= =#=#== #=#==##= -=-==--- =-- .=--  ---
---     ---  . =-= :=-= -== :=## ### :::##= :..=#= .=== ==- .=-- -=-  ---  ---
------  -=- .  -=-==-== =#==##= :#=### :##= .:.#===#== .-=- .-=- =-=  -=-  ---
 ------ --- .. --==--== ==##== .:####= :=#= ::.=#=#== ..==-  --= -=- .---  ---
    --- =--  . -== .=-= #=# =## :### :::##= :..#=# === .=-- .-=- =--  =--  ---
------- ----=- =-= .-== =#= :##= =##### =##==# =#= .#== ==--=--- -=-----------
------   -=-== -=- :=-= =## .=## #=###= .##=#= ##= .=#=  -==--=  .=-=--=-----
  .  . .. ... .:.. ...:..::.:::.::::::::.:::.::.:..:...:.. ..:. ... .. .. .  .