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From: Veronica Karlsson <dream@on.spammer>
Subject: Re: Lighthouse
Date: 1997/10/25
Message-ID: <34525831.446B9B3D@on.spammer>#1/1
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References: <344fc046.1745233@news.eramp.net>
 <19971025011901.VAA13050@ladder01.news.aol.com>
 <3451E7B9.44A4@freent.toronto.on.ca>
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art


llizard wrote:
> 
> In article <19971025011901.VAA13050@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
> bssgrl@aol.com (Bssgrl) wrote:
> >                                                ^
> >
> >                                          / ****\
> >          \  )(  /
> >                                         ~~i~~~ /
> >     -    O  -
> >                                        |     i     O|   -                  m
> >            / )( \
> >                                       ~~~~~~~  \ `
> >          m                           | wwww|
> >                                        |wwww ||
> >                                        |             |
> >                                        |mmmm |
> >          ~      ~~~~~        | mmmm|~~~~  ***^^^~~~~~~~~~````~~~
> > ~         ~             ~~      |^|          |~~~~~    ` `~`~`~      ~~~~``~~
> >    ~~~``~~~``88888888888888888888888,~~~~~````~~~    ~~~``
> > ~~~``   ~~~88888888888888888888888888    ~~~~~   ```  ~~~~
> >  ~~~~         888888888888888888888888888   ~~~~    ~~~~    ~~~
> >
> >         (Bssgrl)
> .
> 
>         ___  ???/\
>       _/   |===%^,
>      |_____|    \/>
>        ---  ==     >
>      [_____]     __>,^
> ejm97 |   |     //| |
> 
> As you can see from the above, something bad happened to your drawing,
> Bssgrl. Did you do it in ARIAL font? And did you leave a lot of spaces
> at the ends of your lines?
> 
> Try posting it again using a fixed width font such as COURIER or MONACO
> and no spaces at the ends of your lines.
> 

Or maybe there are some tabs in there... Tabs look different in
different computers (even in different programs in the same computer) so
they are not suitable to use in ascii art. Use ordinairy space
characters instead, even if it takes a little longer to draw that way,
it's worth it.

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