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From: Bateau <ItsFAKE@Not-A-Real-Address.com>
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Subject: Re: Fonts?
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 17:15:42 +0800
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Markus Gebhard: Do you expect me to reply?
Bateau: No Mr Markus Gebhard, I expect you to die!
>Hello Ascii Artists,
>
>I am working on support for other fonts than Courier New for the next
>release of Jave. Unfortunately it seems I have to compile a list of
>fonts that make make sense for ascii art. I have tried to find them out
>within my program by looking at some character widths of all fonts
>available on the system, but this takes a lot of time for testing and
>most of the result fonts are symbolic ones (like Wingdings)...
>
>So here is my question: What are the names of the fonts you are using
>for ascii art?
>Please post your answer directly to me - I don't think it makes sense to
>flood the ng with messages about this topic - or does it?
>
>Or if you are into Java programming: Do you have a good idea about how
>to find out fonts that are suitable for ascii art by a program?

Fixedsys is the only one to use.
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