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From: "Big M. Fasola" <mfasola@dial.eunet.ch>
Subject: Re: Ascii-art in HTML
Date: 1996/07/09
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Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote:
> The problem is that newline characters will be deleted from
> this text, so it becomes "___ _7 |> | _  | \ \...."
> which doesn't look much like a dog, does it????
> <pre>...</pre> does not stop this!
> I am not aware of any "\n" type sequence for inserting a new-line.
> 
> Saying that, is there a protocol for inserting an ascii
> character-number?  &013 decimal (&015 oct, &0x0D hex)
> to put an LF in a string, and would that work OK?

No, it won't. I put LOTS of blanks between the last word of a line 
and the first word of the next line, and it works. I didn't find a
law to calculate the number of blanks... just experiment a little.
<pre> doesn't affect an ALT statement, <FONT size=x> does. You can
have ALT text in any size from 1 to 7.
To see what I have done, reach http://www.tinet.ch/table with images
turned off and read the ALT text in the "Stargazer" (TXT) section.
Hope this helps,

Biggo.
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