Re: Proportional ASCII art (?)
From David Wallis <wal...@surfplaza.com>
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· 3 Oct 1996 00:00 · View full thread
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Dear Pedro: Some people try to make ASCII art using proportional fonts... this is generally considered an error, and is treated as such on this newsgroup. The reason is that the viewer must use the EXACT SAME font face as the one the artist used to create the art. Otherwise it looks distorted. Unfortunately, there is no proportional font face that is universally available. That's why we insist that people use fixed pitch fonts only. Pedro Graca wrote: > > Is there such a thing as proportional ASCII art? > > All ascii art I've seen is in a fixed pitch font. > > I don't think I can do more than a box in ascii art, > (fixed pitch or proportional) but proportional fonts > have a structure that can (can it?) be used to make > different (interesting?) pictures. > -- > Pedro Graca <pme...@mail.telepac.pt> -- | ___ __ _ _ _ ___O___ ( / \ o / ( / / // // o \/|\/ / / __, _ ,_, __/ / / / __, // // , ( // (/\_/ (_/(_/ |/ (_(_/_ (_/_/ (_/(_(/_(/_/(_/_)_ \\ http://www.surfplaza.com/ | mailto:wal...@surfplaza.com
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