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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 16 Dec 2003.
Re: [REQ] one line ASCII sheep

Re: [REQ] one line ASCII sheep

Dirk-Lueder Kreie wrote:
> Joe Koperski wrote:
> 
> >>> Looks best with a propotional font like "Times new Roman".
> >>
> >> ASCII-Art is fixed-width.
> >
> > Not necessaryly for a one-liner.
> 
> Text art maybe, but the more specific definitions of ASCII ART require it
> to be viewable ver platform independently, which means, you should use a
> fixed-width Font.

The font is necessary to make the details of the different lines line up
properly. That doesn't matter for a one-liner. For example, smileys work
just fine in proportional fonts.


-- 
     __   __  _____  _____   ______   __    _  _   _____   __
 ||| \ \  ) )/ /  \|| | \ \ / /  \ \ |  \  | || | / /  \|  ) \
||..  \ \/ /| |_/|  | |_/ /| |    | ||   \ | || || |       /  \
|.PP.  \  / | | \|  | | \ \| |    | || |\_\| || || |      / /\ \
 _\/___ \_(  \_\__/||_|  \_\\_\__/_/ |_|   |_||_| \_\__/|(_(  \_\
|____ A S C I I  A R T  C H A T  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ ___|

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