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From: "Rainer Rosenthal" <r.rosenthal@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 325
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Joaquim G�ndara wrote

> obascii:
>
> this paragraph
> is a small box
> of text trying
> to pass as art
>

             d
            id
          dled:


    aaaaaaaabef
    gghh   iiil
    lmno   oopp
    prrr   rsss
    sssttttttxx
_________y__________



Your  text-box  has  its  characters scattered
quite  randomly;  so I sorted  and  rearranged
them  with the 9 blanks surrounded by the rest
of them. The block being balanced on top of y.

There is a nice property in your text-box with
respect to the blanks, made visible as follows

  xxxx|xxxxxxxxx      There's no  way straight
  xx|x|xxxxx xxx      thru vertically. And the
  xx|xxxx|xxxxxx      single isolated blank is
  xx|xxxx|xx|xxx      sort of cute. Regards R@


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