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From: David Wallis <wallis@surfplaza.com>
Subject: Re: Ascii-art in HTML
Date: 1996/07/06
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Jorn Barger wrote:
> 
> There's a trick that supposedly works for some/many browsers,
> where you put
> 
> <pre>
> <img alt="this
> should
> form
> a
> column" src=whatever.gif>
> </pre>
> 
> so that the alt text 'inherits' the surrounding text style.
> 
Interesting idea. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with Netscape 2.0. 
What I get is "thisshouldformacolumn" without even so much as a space!
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