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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 18 Oct 1999.
Re: Need help!

Re: Need help!

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).


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 ` `,/ /`,\        \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _         /,'\ \
   .'.'  /|         \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` |        |\  `.`.
 ,' /   / |          \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_|        | \   \ `,
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Date: 1999/10/18
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