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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 22 Oct 1999.
Re: newbie's work

Re: newbie's work

> Leo Choy <lmw...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:380...@hotmail.com...
> : hi all,
> : i am new to this newsgroup, here's my work, any comments are fine:
> :          ______0_________________8                      8
> :   ___/             |_________|________|=====|=====|[]=
> : {|          _____|_________|=======|=====|       ==|=======>
> : {|____/     /_/  \ \
> :                /        \ \
> :                          \ \
> :                           \ \
> : it is a rifle.
>
> Looks garbled , messed up , out of sync..
>
> The reason for this is that you have used the font called Arial to draw
this.
> Arial is a proportional font .. which means that not all characters are of
equal
> width. This causes problems when displayed on a computer which does'nt
have the
> exact same font or newsreader.
>
> Therefore all ASCII images are drawn in a fixed-width font (like courier
or
> courier-new) because even if displayed on a different computer with a
different
> fixed-width font, the image will look much the same - Besides it's easier
to
> draw an ASCII if you are sure the characters are of equal width.
>
> I redoddled you image in courier-new .. now it looks like this.
> (remember to read it with a fixed-width font)
>
>       ______0_________________8            8
>   ___/     |_________|________|=====|=====|[]=
> {|     ____|_________|========|=====|   ==|=======>
> {|____/     /_/  \ \
>            /      \ \
>                    \ \
>                     \_\
>
>
> Nice .. try to do some more using fixed-width fonts.
> TIP : In my opinion the best ASCII's are the funny and cute ones .. they
are
> always very popular .. weapons of massdestruction are not at the top of
the
> wishlist .. but ofcourse anyone can draw anything they'd like.
>
> Regards
> .: CeeJay :.

 a) RIfle of Leo looks much beter.
 b) Rifle of CeeJay is all messed up and garbled. I have no idea how did he
achieve this using Courier New :)

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From: "Boris Zyryanov" <bor...@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: newbie's work
Date: 1999/10/22
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