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From: David.Cervera@uchsc.edu (Zaphod)
Subject: Re: How do you solve the problem of spaces?
Date: 1996/02/12
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Afraid to say that there is nothing you can do.  Your problem is in your 
font.  The newest programs no longer need to use monotype fonts, so the 
spaces between your letters, and the space each letter takes up on a line 
could be anything.  Consequently, this completely screws up the ability to 
use ASCII art in email sigs.  You can set your email program to use a 
monotype font (e.g. Courier), but there's no guarantee that your recipient 
will have his program set appropriately.

To check, in a monotype font, these two lines should be the same length:

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

seeing as they both have 25 characters.  But in any other font, the line of 
w's is going to be about three times as long as the i's.