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From: "aardvarko" <*REMOVE ME*aardvarko@geocities.com>
Subject: Re: CAN'T PASTE!
Date: 1997/12/14
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A proportional font is a font where the letters are different widths. In
a proportional font, these two lines will not line up:

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

In a fixed-width font, however, they will, effectively "decoding" ASCII
art.

Fixed width fonts date back from the days when computers couldn't do
anything better; i.e. MS-DOS. Pretty much the only reason they still
survive is ASCII art and cross-platform compatibility. (i.e. ASCII art
looks the same on a Mac as on a PC)

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David Day wrote in message <66n55d$s8e$1@news01.micron.net>...
>I don't know what a proportional font is.
>   -Sarah
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