X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,5d960403a8979cc8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-19 04:12:06 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!hermes.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!skynet.be!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!130.230.10.15.MISMATCH!news.cc.tut.fi!uutiset.saunalahti.fi!not-for-mail From: Ville Jouppi Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Has anybody seen an ASCII art like this? Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:14:11 +0200 Organization: Arabuusimiehet Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <39aef916.18351012@news.easynews.com> <3A87AE9B.CEE7B51B@idiom.com> <96lfd8$5b5$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: simpukka.saunalahti.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: tron.sci.fi 982584684 2530 195.74.0.20 (19 Feb 2001 12:11:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.fi NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Feb 2001 12:11:24 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4468 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. >Is this the real way forward for an ASCI Artist? I don't think so. Maybe for an artist who wants to venture towards Ascii it might.