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From: Ilmari Karonen <iltzu@sci.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Classic ascii pics
Date: 30 Mar 2001 09:34:04 GMT
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In article <3AC39EB4.6F580274@strong.sjello.nl>, Mark Sterk wrote:
> 
>You have used a <front> tag after the <pre> tag this is unfortunatly an
>illegal html option, set the front size before you use the <pre> ..
></pre> tags and your problems are gone.
>
>
><font size="+1"><PRE>
>
>   , ; ,   .-'"""'-.   , ; ,
>   \\|/  .'         '.  \|// 
>    \-;-/             \-;-/ 
>    // ;               ; \\ 
>   //__; :.         .; ;__\\ 
>  `-----\'.'-.....-'.'/-----'
>         '.'.-.-,_.'.'
> jgs       '(  (..-'
>             '-'
>
></PRE></font>

Unfortunately that is *also* invalid HTML, and arguably even more broken
than having the FONT tags inside PRE.  The correct solution is to use
CSS, either in the style attribute or in a full style sheet:


<PRE style="font: 110% Fixedsys, monospaced;">

   , ; ,   .-'"""'-.   , ; ,
   \\|/  .'         '.  \|//
    \-;-/             \-;-/
    // ;               ; \\
   //__; :.         .; ;__\\
  `-----\'.'-.....-'.'/-----'
         '.'.-.-,_.'.'
 jgs       '(  (..-'
             '-'

</PRE>

-- 
Ilmari Karonen -- http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/
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