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From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dave@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Question about ascii art
Date: 1996/12/17
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In article <roberta-1512962224030001@t1.meinc.com>, Roberta Quadro
<roberta@meinc.com> writes
>I've tried to copy and paste ascii art into messages
>but they don't come out the same as where I copied
>them from. Is there a special procedure involved
>when you put ascii art into a message? I'm new to
>all this and it's interesting to be able to put the
>art in your messages.

Mmm, yes, it's sort of an F-A-Q, but.... ascii-art is normally
done in a fixed spacing [typewwriter] font such as 'courrier',
for the excellent reason that otherwise everybody would
be trying to use _different_ proportional fonts and it
would never look the same twice.  So, set the font option
to a typewriter font on any editors or newsreaders involved,
and your troubles will be over.

                                                            
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