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From: bates@wn.planet.gen.nz (Alden Bates)
Subject: Re: [Talk] Windows fonts and ASCII art
Date: 1996/10/05
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Lennert Stock (lennert@xs4all.nl) wrote:

: A small request to Windows users. Basically, Courier (New) is considered
: the "standard" fixed-size font, but to my humble opinion, it destroys the
: appeal of an ASCII picture. It sucks.

Perhaps someone should make a fixed-size Windows font which is optimised
for displaying ascii art.

: Still I think many pictures look better on other systems and terminals.

Well, Hey, if you can supply a bitmap of the font, I can turn it into a
Windows font.  Raster only I'm afraid, I don't have a TrueType editor.

Alden Bates.
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