X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,eb98b615024145d8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-05-25 22:02:02 PST Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!psuvax1!psuvax1!flee From: flee@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: pls help improve 3-line font Date: 26 May 1994 04:32:56 GMT Organization: Penn State Comp Sci & Eng Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <1994May23.152720.32287@beansidhe.ms.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: guardian.cse.psu.edu > 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: //==, //=== ,===, //| // //==, == //==, // // //=== //==< //== //==// //||// `==, // // // //==// //== //==='//=== // // // |// `==// // //===' // // //===