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From: "Andrea Lachner" <drea@worldno.spamonline.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Thank you!
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 09:37:15 +0200
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"Philip Newton" <pne-news-20020401@newton.digitalspace.net> wrote in
message news:mtufau0e1nn2jv3rrmoaet13k97hr683an@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 00:17:27 +0200, "Andrea Lachner"
> <drea@worldno.spamonline.co.za> wrote:
>
> > Aaahhaaa, I have just had a breakthrough in the above gecko
drawing -
> > looked at it in courier, carefully, staring and yessss, I see it!
>
> That's the way to do it.
>
> ASCII art should (IMO) only be done in a monospace (constant-width)
font
> such as Courier, Topaz, Lucida Console[*], ... since that ensures that
> all letters are the same width and the art will look (more or less)
the
> same for everybody.
>
> With proportional fonts, you can never be sure whether your image will
> look the same... if you're making art in Arial and the receiver has
> Times New Roman, or Palatino, or whatever, then perhaps his space
> character will be wider but his semicolon is narrower or whatever, and
> things won't line up properly. Your horse and teddy, for example,
looked
> rather strange when viewed in a monospace font (Courier New for me)
> since it didn't line up properly.

Thanks Philip

I have now set my messages to read in Courier and amazing I can see all
the drawings properly!
And yes, the teddy does go weird!
Learn something new every day!

Thanks
Andrea