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From: Ryan Schweitzer <milo!schweitz@plains.NoDak.edu>
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Subject: Line-Talk: Shadowing Effect for large ASCII chars.
Date: 21 Jun 1994 20:16:35 -0500
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I have a little trick for making some types of ASCII chars that are made from
one solid character such as an asterisk (*).  What ya do is put a backslash
behind the last character on every line.  Here's an example, with the letter I:

                        ***************\
                        ***************\
                        \\\\*******\\\\\
                            *******\
                            *******\
                            *******\
                        ***************\
                        ***************\
                        \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

Plus, I also forgot to mention that it goes underneath overhanging parts of a
letter.  This makes a shadowing effect, and if you want to look at it another
way, it makes the letter thicker.

Later,
Ryan Schweitzer
schweitz%milo@plains.NoDak.edu