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From: kgeorge@coho.halcyon.com (Koshy George)
Subject: [TALK] ascii art-  dependency on fonts
Date: 1996/05/31
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	All my ascii art has been created 
	in a window which had a terminal-font.
	To be precise,' courier' regular size 10.
	Ascii art is extremely sensitive to the font used.
        For eg:, many of my ascii art seems to
	be lacking in their beauty at my web page
	(http://www.serv.net/~kgeorge/ascii_1.html)
	which uses 'courier new' regular 10.
	
	In olden days, everybody had only one font
	in their vt100-s. But these days it is not true.
	Even in a MAC or a PC running windows95/NT the
	user interfaces are rich in fonts of different variety.

	This takes a jab at the universality of the ascii art,
	for whatever it stands for.

					-koshy george