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From: boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison)
Subject: Answer: Why ASCII art sometimes looks jumbled
Date: 1995/08/08
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W J Siwak <rustyscalpel.wjs@ccinet.ab.ca> wrote:
>
>I constructed a 72-character-long ASCII sig, but:
>	1) When I try to print it, the sig is jumbled
>	2) When it is e-mailed at the end of a message, 
>	   the recipient is unable to read it
>
>Can someone please advise as to what the problem may be?

   It's hard to tell exactly what the problem might be, but it may be 
that you are proportional font.  ASCII art requires a monospaced font, 
where all letters, regardless of their widths, are spaced the same amount.

   The following two lines should look the same length:

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM


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