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From: jorn@mcs.com (Jorn Barger)
Subject: Re: HELP in translating ascii to html
Date: 1997/11/10
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Lester5374 <lester5374@aol.com> wrote:
>Copy and paste the ASCII into the HTML document, then put <PRE> on the
>line before the pic, and </PRE> at the end of it (or at the end of a
>list of pictures). Doing this will make the ASCII viewable as a regular
>ASCII picture.

Most browsers need you to convert all the ">"s and "<"s and "&"s to
escape-codes, too:

 ">"   ->   &gt;   [greater than]
 "<"   ->   &lt;   [less than]
 "&"   ->   &amp;  [ampersand]

And because anchor-tags (<A HREF="">) in PRE regions are recognized, you
can make different regions of the ascii-image into hyperlinks.  See:

<URL:http://www.mcs.net/~jorn/html/finder/finder.html>

for some clickable/live ascii maps.

Also, if you leave blank lines at the beginning and end of a PRE region,
they'll provide extra spacing-- some browsers don't automatically skip a
line before and after PRE, so they'll look squashed if you don't do it
yourself.


j