Re: Technology evolution and ascii pics
From Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk>
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· 22 May 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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In article <356...@sympatico.ca>, Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> writes: >In other words, the maker of the ascii pic provides display instructions in >the form of html tags to the viewing tool, in order to make sure that the >viewing tool displays the ascii pic correctly. This is to be contrasted to the >use of the built-in word processors of email and newsgroup software. As >viewing tools, these word processors work without the benefit of display >instructions (i.e. html tags.) These word processors will try to display the >ascii pic information with the general purpose "feature" set bestowed on them, >which can and will damage ascii pics as we saw in the above. In other words, to defeat "improvement " of news/mail text with wordprocessor features, we will probably have to embed our art in PRE.../PRE tags. Yes, I think this is probably right and quite perceptive of you. <pre> -- <__"-$ <__" <__" <__" :_ : : :_ ''''''''._____'-_....'"...-------''''''_ <__' '. $CIENTOLOGY: ..''--- :. ; _ . . . - ''' . . ' ': ': ': : .' the bridge to .~~>~~>:~~>: :.' total madness ~~> ~~> ' </pre>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,cc07b6bb8d657c99 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Technology evolution and ascii pics Date: 1998/05/22 Message-ID: <+py7...@xemu.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 355415040 References: <356...@sympatico.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: xemu.demon.co.uk:158.152.196.209 X-Complaints-To: abu...@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 895802274 nnrp-08:137 NO-IDENT xemu.demon.co.uk:158.152.196.209 Organization: 1st Canine Chapel of Bob Dobbs Dog (Church of the SubGenius) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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