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From: tom@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom Paton)
Subject: Answer: HTMLizing ASCII Art
Date: 1995/09/01
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In article <41v3oc$r8k@news.dgsys.com> mkershaw@dgsys.com (Mike Kershaw) writes:
>Karen Litzau (klitzau@nyx10.cs.du.edu) wrote:
>> Subject says it all.  I've been attempting to HTMLize some ASCII art, but 
>> it's not working.  I enclose the art within <pre> tags, but when i try to 
>> view it in lynx, it comes out all messed up.  *grrr*  Any suggestions?
>If you have a pic for GUI browsers to go along with it, this should work.
><pre><IMG SRC="Your_pic.gif" ALT="
>Whatever ASCII Art"></pre>
>mike
[sig deleted]

I tried doing the same thing.
2 solutions:
	a) have a line like <a href="asciipic.asc">link to pic</a>
		which will load up a seperate file that is not interpreted
		as HTML

	b) include ascii art in html page.
		put pic between <pre> and </pre>, but you ALSO have to 
		change all 
			   '"' (thats qoute characters) to &quot
		           '<' to &lt
			   '>' to &gt
                           '&' to &amp

takes a while but it should fix your problem.

hope that helps, if not try looking at the source for my homepage  (in sig)

cheers  -  Tom

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