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From: l33812@alfa.ist.utl.pt (Seal do Mar)
Subject: Re: Ascii-art in HTML
Date: 1996/07/18
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> In article <0$FNQ0A8h44xEwZG@xemu.demon.co.uk>
> Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dave@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> > <img src="none.gif" alt="&#013  
> >      __                  &#013
> >    _7 |&gt;              &#013
> >   | _  |                 &#013
> >      \ \______,          &#013
> >      /    __  ;          &#013
> >      \  _/  \ )          &#013
> >      | /     |l          &#013">
> > 
> > 
> > DOESN'T WORK !!!!  No line-breaks are inserted in the resulting alt.

	If found something like this working on some cases on the scarecrow
www link, but those some cases are:
	- You have to assume that the browsers screen has a fixed number
of columns, 80 on the example, and that it will wrap at the end of the line.
	This is not such an extreme assumption as if you're seeing the alt
you probably have a text screen, be it VT100, VT220 or some windowed telnet.
And it is already using a monospaced font.
	- Now the tricky part, you must type in the entire line so that the 
ascii wraps on the rigth place, but you can't use more than one space at a
time and at the end of the line! So ... how about a background going with
your dog?! :) Ha! and you probably will not be able to use &gt; and alikes
'cause they aren't always interpreted inside the alt.

	This way it works with my version of lynx, of course, if I change to
132 columns ... well you're guessing the mess that comes to screen!!

	oh well, but if someone finds out a way of going around all this,
please, let us know!

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