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From: mvcorks@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Matt Corks)
Subject: Re: Ascii-art in HTML
Date: 1996/07/28
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In article <31F86F4D.4876@stanford.edu>,
Michael Silverton  <Michael.Silverton@stanford.edu> wrote:
>CRYLUX wrote:
>
>> Ascii Image came be use just every one has done it wrong so far.
>> <pre><img src="Missing.gif" alt="  _____
>>  /     \
>> | () () |
>>  \  ^  /
>>   |||||
>>   |||||"></pre>
>> The Trick is geting the pre in the right place. No fun chars nothing.

Hey, cool!  Didn't think of that.  Thanks!

>hmmmmm ... when I use this:

[snip]

>I get this in Netscape 3.0b5:
>
>,o888b,`?88888        ,8888 888   ?888       8888888P'    888      888P' 
>
>
>And this in Lynx 2.5:
>
>         ,o888b,`?88888
>
>       ,8888 888   ?888
>
>       8888888P'    888
>
>       888P'        888
>
>       `88   O     d888
>
>         `?._  _.o88888      
>
>
>Neither is really optimal.  Extra vertical space in Lynx and no
>&#10;&#13; like action in Netscape.

I agree that's stupid (as stated in a previous post to this thread).
However, I suspect the problem is the actual HTML text file.  I just
tried this with a UNIX HTML document, and I didn't have a problem.

MS-DOS uses <CR><LF> as an end of line character, UNIX is <LF>, and MacOS
is <CR>.  In the example above, it seems the <CR> was screwing it up.
Get a text editor that's capable of saving it with <LF> as the end of
line character, such as the vi emulator vim.

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