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From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dave@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Ascii-art in HTML
Date: 1996/07/22
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In article <4svfdq$e2m@styx.uwa.edu.au>, David Low
<lowd@tartarus.uwa.edu.au> writes
>>> <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.
>
>What's wrong with something like:
>
><pre>
>      __               
>    _7 |&gt;            
>   | _  |              
>      \ \______,       
>      /    __  ;       
>      \  _/  \ )         
>      | /     |l      
></pre>

What's wrong is that the ascii-art is no longer the text alternative
to the image, which is what the original author actually wanted to do.
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