X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,df8f67ab4e94faca X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-26 16:47:05 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!amsnews01.chello.com!Flipper.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ppunk@damnthatspam.chello.nl (Peter Punk) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: ASCII Art Fart for Sun, Jan 21, '01 Organization: Total Disorganisation Message-ID: <5s547tk5lt09mq1c0v3ejpuini3b705co2@4ax.com> References: <94hnlq$c1dh$1@rn.area.com> <3a6b4110.16808453@news.concentric.net> <3a6cca2a.34275169@news.telus.net> <3a6df393.44878426@news.telus.net> <3a6f895f.43319692@news.telus.net> <3a71bddf.2321597@news.telus.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 49 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 00:47:02 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.93.74.225 X-Complaints-To: abuse@chello.nl X-Trace: Flipper 980556422 213.93.74.225 (Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:47:02 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:47:02 MET Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4240 On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:37:50 GMT, see@the.end.of.my.post (Veruschka) provoked the following text: >@--In that case, don't give up but just ask (here or anywhere..) > >In that case, then, don't complain later on that I have TOO MANY >questions!! ;-) I never complain about too many questions, i'll sooner complain about not enough questions. >@--Best setting is 74, that way you make sure i won't wrap in any >newsreader, >@--including the ones using a text-only (80 columns) screen. > >The reason why I set it at 85 is, as demonstrated in the quote right >above, a 70-ish setting would split a long line of words into two (see how >the word 'newsreader' being pushed to a new line), resulting in >'irregular' quoting That's just a matter of repairing quoting damage, we all have to do it like i had when i split your sentence. 74 chars is pretty much the standard, there are very few artists who draw pics wider than that. >Another question, if I don't choose the 'word wrap' option at all, would >the ASCII art still be displayed properly? Not all ASCII-art, some of it is just too wide for most newsreaders but that's very rare. >(as you can clearly see, I really have no idea what 'word wrap' is about >whatsoever!) I have added a "Wordwrap" button to my FA toolbar, you can do the same and just experiment away. -- Peter Punk \ / ---\\\\--- / \ Draai je V3.03 al van de SETI@home client? http://home.hetnet.nl/~setiathomegroep/index.html voor tips, antwoorden, discussies. links, downloads en meer. 714wu/8740hrs You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10^12 to 1.