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From: "Lucas E. Purcell" <LPurcell@ix.NetCom.com>
Subject: Re: Ascii-art in HTML
Date: 1996/10/08
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Cyber wrote:
> 
> Jeremy Penner <pzp655@freenet.mb.ca> wrote:
> 
> >On 19 Sep 1996, Harry Samuel Renkert V wrote:
> 
> >> Christine Mackley (clm1948@sprynet.com) wrote:
> >> : On 8 Jul 1996 07:07:27 GMT,
> >> : matt.granberry@windmill.com@windmillbbs.com    (Matt Granberry) wrote:
> >> : >I have this same complaint of Netscape.  On my web pages I include
> >> : >ascii-art as alternatives for many of the images.  This looks great using
> >> : >a text mode browser such as LYNX but looks terrible using Netscape.
> 
> >I use a bit of ASCII art in my page.  It's the font in Netscape, right?
> >Well, if you just put <PRE> and </PRE> around the entire ASCII, it will
> >do it in a perfect ASCII font.  (I know this works for Internet Explorer,
> >anyways, pretty darned sure for Netscape too)
> 
>         It will work in Netscape if the default for "Fix Width Font" wasn't changed,
> or was changed to another "fixed width" font.  The default is 'Courier New'
> 
>         That's when <pre> </pre> will work properly.

When in doubt, use the <TT> and </TT> tags.
They always work. :)

-Lucas E. Purcell