X-Google-Thread: f996b,c9a753806974d3e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!reader.motzarella.org!not-for-mail From: Troy Piggins Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: What do we call these? Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:11:58 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: <20090217141048@usenet.piggo.com> References: <41775540-ae96-432b-af49-a65e079821ac@t26g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: usenet-0902@piggo.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1+CRr3N8qkT72mLQa2sfU+2uErjrCn/dNxK8UIA9NpO/VVKaKIuXvcqZu9YPHDT7dtXIuDRLOr2lMq9Ij3b0+rdrgtTEdVb8MBCbWOHkzs0+UfmaYmyS/X5Siqj5jm1f26jroLoDNuH7w== X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:11:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX197kDKogAGOVOPuZNSwloVymEE97Q4LlriCP2omuxTWjQ== X-NNTP-Proxy: Leafnode-2 (http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/leafnode/beta/) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kd3oYD58WTld/YMuVdRAztSzQS8= User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-2/rt (Linux) Xref: g2news1.google.com alt.ascii-art:575 * Faux_Pseudo wrote : > _.-In alt.ascii-art, Moz wrote the following -._ >> I see these listed in peoples emails and I love them, but what would I >> even call this stuff? I've looked under ASCII art, but that is always >> drawings. I just want embellished text really. >> >> Any help appreciated. > > Its just some ansi. The problem with using it is that it won't > display the same every where. For example when I read your post I saw > this: > >> ??*??) >> ??.*????.**????) ??.**????) >> (??.*?? (??*????(?? Gling! >> (??.*?? (??.*???? It displays correctly with the latest/current version of slrn ;) But as you point out, it's not ascii. -- Troy Piggins