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From: cyber@ra.isisnet.com (Cyber)
Subject: Re: Ascii-art in HTML
Date: 1996/10/07
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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.