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From: Hercules Gunter <hgunter@wantree.com.au>
Subject: Re: pasting ascii art
Date: 1996/11/14
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Eli Ganam wrote:
. 
.  Hi smith@gunnison.com...
. 
.  s(KS> I am new to newsgroup but have done and appreciate a lot of
ascii
. 
.  s(KS> art...  but when i try to copy-paste  some of the ascii art
work i
. 
.  s(KS> have sone and have... It is alway distorted on the screen.. Is
there a
. 
.  s(KS> method to do this correcty??
. 
.   First, check that the ascii width is smaller that 80.
. 
.   Second, try to use a better editor.
. 
.                                                     Eli Ganam.
. 

Before all this, check whether you are using a proportional font.  A
non-proportional font like Courier (typical typewriter typeface) has all
letters the same width.  A proportional font (almost all TrueType or
other fonts) has characters of varying widths, so that i and w, for
example, are very different widths, especially if they are san serif (no
added bars to fill in the gaps that are otherwise obvious with a
non-proportional font.  This varying width destroys the column
alignment.  So, if you are using a TrueType font, use Courier New or
similar.