X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,5d960403a8979cc8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-20 12:46:57 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!diablo.theplanet.net!news.theplanet.net!newspost.theplanet.net!not-for-mail From: "Martin Double" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Has anybody seen an ASCII art like this? Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:47:58 -0000 Organization: Customer of Energis Squared Lines: 47 Message-ID: <96ul3t$m61$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk> References: <39aef916.18351012@news.easynews.com> <3A87AE9B.CEE7B51B@idiom.com> <96lfd8$5b5$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk> <96rpub$sdh$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk> <982609332.10238@itz.pp.sci.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-185.oklahoma.dialup.pol.co.uk X-Trace: newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk 982702013 22721 62.137.87.185 (20 Feb 2001 20:46:53 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Feb 2001 20:46:53 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse@theplanet.net X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4501 Ilmari Karonen wrote in message news:982609332.10238@itz.pp.sci.fi... > In article <96rpub$sdh$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>, Martin Double wrote: > >Ville Jouppi wrote in message > >news:ka229tcvq479uo1dl8pni8il7tme9uptkr@4ax.com... > >> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 09:15:16 -0000, "Martin Double" > >> wrote: > >> > >> >If you really want to produce brilliant ASCI art why not use CAD? > >> >I am not an artist but I use CAD and it can give you any type of > >> >text, any size of text, bold and italic text, English or foreign > >> >text, text of any colour, and at any spacing even overlaping, and > >> >text at any angle. All these features and easily edited too! > >> > >> That's not what Ascii is about.. It's about everyone with a text terminal > >> being able to see what you've created. That's why the character set is > >> limited, and why we only use fixed width fonts. > > > >Perhaps I shall continue with my own newly discovered form of art, and call > >it Super-Ascii-Art. > > Oh, if you like to create such art, by all means do. It's not the > same as ASCII art, but that doesn't mean it's any less worthy as an > artform. They're two different things, like painting and photography. > > Just accept that it isn't what this newsgroup is about. I am afraid thats what all newsgroups are about:- expressing opinions, progress, ideas, hearing things you would rather not hear, etc. Open your mind to it you are not just stiffiling yourself you are trying to control others, which will not be tollerated on this news group. Free speech remember?! Regards Martin PS > > -- > Ilmari Karonen - http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/ > "The slushpile was, I gather, of record-breaking -- indeed, even floorboard- > breaking -- proportions." -- Charlie Stross in rec.arts.sf.composition >