X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,b2b0026a23d8151d X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Veronica Karlsson Subject: Re: Question to Spunk 1111 Date: 1997/05/12 Message-ID: <33766610.167EB0E7@sm.luth.se.nospam>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 240957378 References: <3372C4EE.26DB@bc.sympatico.ca> <19970511222300.SAA03609@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Spunk1111 wrote: > > In article <3372C4EE.26DB@bc.sympatico.ca>, Anne Buonassisi > writes: > >I have a real "newbie" question- do you have any idea why, when I copy > >and save some ascii (I ALWAYS leave the initials on, OF COURSE!!) the > >ascii looks fine where I save it but then when I try to send it to > >someone in an email the top line (usually the top) leaves the picture > >and ends up way on the left hand side of the screen by itself???? > > I'm guessing that it may be how you save the picture. With ASCII art, > spaces are important. Too many extra spaces at the end of a line can > cause a picture to wrap. In addition, spaces after a line can cause some > reader programs to add an "=20D" or something like it to each line. > If the top line of your copied picture is on the left all by itself, you > might > have forgotten to save all those blank spaces before the first character > of the first line... possible? > -joan I have a mean editor that sometimes removes empty spaces at the beginning of a line - without asking me for permission.... :( -- :) Veronica Karlsson ( e93-vkn@sm.luth.se http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ ) ( llizard's fanclub: http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/llpages )