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From: marten.mellberg@telia.com.deletethis
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Subject: Re: Webpage asciifont
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At 15 Mar 2001 21:50:42 GMT Eli the Bearded <*@qz.little-neck.ny.us>
wrote 39 Lines about "Re: Webpage asciifont" in "alt.ascii-art"

>In alt.ascii-art,  <marten.mellberg@telia.com.deletethis> wrote:
>> Anyone have a suggestion for which font to use to put some ascii on my
>> webpage and it look good on many plattformsnot just pc+windows?
>
>Any font you select has to be on the remote system for the browser
>to use it. Chances are slim that will help much.
>
>> Or should I just use the <PRE></PRE> tags?
>
>A <PRE></PRE> block is necessary to make sure that the whitespace does
>not get squished. Added benefit is that <PRE></PRE> also uses a fixed
>width font (but which one used may vary).
>
>> Maybe its best to put a .txt in a frame or the webpage get corrupt if
>> using the < / \ > codes in the asciiart?
>
>That will work, but you can esacpe the special characters with a
>global replace in your editor. The ones you need to worry about
>are:
>
>	&	=> 	&amp;
>	<	=>	&lt;
>	>	=>	&gt;
>
>Do the ampersand first so that you don't break the codes for < and >.

Maybe we need a new HTML tag

<ASCIIART>

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/ \ -0||||

</ASCIIART>

The most important new feature in HTML5