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From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dave@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Sigfile for AOL
Date: 1997/02/20
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In article <19970220171801.MAA18390@ladder02.news.aol.com>, SSKAN
<sskan@aol.com> writes
>America Online uses letters that have BIGGER capitals, they take up space
>than regular small characters.  That's why they will come out funny. 

Yeah. We knew that. It's called a "proportionally spaced font";
which most fonts are.  Unfortunately THEY ARE ALL SPACED DIFFERENT WAYS.

The **ONLY** way we can all agree to see the same thing
is if we all use a fixed-spacing (typewriter) font
for our drawings.


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