X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,30607012ce2d9910 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-22 00:34:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!212.181.212.229!not-for-mail From: Veronica Karlsson Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: The Tengwar Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:37:55 +0000 Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3C244662.64B9B3BB@hotmail.com> References: <6uvgf0nsnl.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.181.212.229 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1009010061 19476727 212.181.212.229 (16 [58193]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i586) Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:12608 drsquare wrote: > Neil Franklin wrote: > > drsquare writes: > > > Looks better when highlighted. > > > > What is "highlighted"? My terminal does not know such a thing. Do you > > mean double bright mode,? Or bold mode? Or underlined? Or inverse > > video mode? Or is that printed out with double strike mode? > > I assumed that most people would be viewing it in a program which normally > displays black on white, and the letters look best white on black, so > highlighting it reverses the colours, making it look right. I use a program which normally displays black on grey, and if I select some text with the mouse it becomes black on yellow. -- ##### c ^ OO /\\\\ ##### | /|\ `^^^^^^^%-- '||` | \\\\ ####-[.]\ / \ " " \ ha ha ha dd /[.]-\\\| ### _| |_ \\| ### (_ http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ _)} == \ / A S C I I A R T C H A T # ||\