Re: Need help!
From Veronica Karlsson <aci...@earthling.net>
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· 18 Oct 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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miK wrote: > Henry Segerman wrote: > > Veronica Karlsson wrote: > > : Try to replace dots with lines: > > > > Personally...: > > Personally, > > I never grasped the added value of J's and F's in > (steep) slopes. It's problably font-specific... > (It can't be personal taste, cos ever since you appeared > in this newsgroup many others started using JF) It's the vertical lines you want to look at: --- # # # # \ # `--' # # # # # # # --- # # # # # # #_____ ('J' is a little bit to the right, 'F' and 'L' a little bit to the left, and '|' in the middle) > Same thing with VK's lines... > > I use 3 OS's: Linux, Mac and Windows, and tried several fonts > (all "fixed-width" of course). I use "9x15". > But not one of them shows the > 1/1-slope exactly 45 degrees. And any font on any system > renders these slopes differently... You're not supposed to see 1/1 as exactly 45 degrees. It's '1' up, '1' to the right = '1/1'. Then you have '2' up, '3' to the right = '2/3'. etc. I just added those numbers to keep track of what I was doing when I made that collection of lines... > > It's got something to do with pixelwidth, I guess... > and -height... per font... per system... > No, you're not supposed to think "pixels" at all (the unit is "characters", or "rows" and "columns", not "millimeters" or "pixels" or anything like that). -- (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ /|__--__ . __--__ |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ .' /| /|:| \ .' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, - `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -
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