Re: How to improve an ascii diagram.

_.-In alt.ascii-art, dsa...@zurich.csail.mit.edu wrote the following -._
> a. How could this ascii diagram be improved?...

By making sure that you are using spaces and not tabs and makking it
clear where the beginging/end of lines are.  You have a very bad case
of line rapping and your news poster is probibly to blame but not
using shorter lines is at fault too.

Letting us know if this is for the same use as the PDF would be nice
too.  It says "You are here" but if they are going to be moving around
with this on a slip of paper then that is a bad idea.

> b. How can this ascii diagram be sorted out better?...

Instead of doing this as a copy of the pdf I would redo it from
scratch and make it smaller, not to scale, and with a legend instead
of trying to fit each name in each room.

.-----------------------------------------------------------------------.
|      _______________________                                          |
|     | A  B  C |  | D  E   F |     +) Catalog                          |  
|     |_ |_ |___|__|_ |_ |__ _|     &) Red Door                         |  
|     |___   _ _     ___ +   _|     @) Express Circulation Desk         |  
|     |  | | H|I | |J  K|  |N |     A) Reference Collection             |  
|     |__| |_ |  | |  | |   __|     B) Reference Room. Reference        |  
|     |+ G   |----------|  |O |        Assistance, Database Research    |  
|     |a     |       |L |   __|     C) News papers, Current Magazines.  |  
|     |b     |       |  &   PQ|     D) Internet Computers               |  
|     |c     |       | _| @|R |     E) Audio Visual Collection, Large   |  
|     `------'       | M|   S |        Print Books                      |  
|                    `--- ----'     F) Audio Books, Language            |  
|          __                          Coll. 400s, Test Books, Careers, |   
|     /\  |==|/\          /\           Resumes, Job Search Books in     |  
|  __ ||  |=_||| _____  __||__  __     Spanish, French.                 |  
| /  \||---/^^||/\____\/^^||^^\/  \ G) Stacks                           |  
| |  |||OOO|UU||()|   |    ||  |  |    a) 360-899                       |  
|                                      b) 900-Misteries                 |  
|    Camberidge Public Library         c) Bio, Sci-Fi, Fiction          |  
|            359 Broadway           H) Mens Room                        |  
|    Camberidge Massachusetts       I) Non-Fiction 300-359              |  
|             __     __             J) Non-Fiction 000-299              |  
|            / _\---/  \            K) Ladies' Room                     |  
|            |/ _   _\_|            L) Children's Room                  |  
|            | / ) ( \ |            M) YA Room                          |  
|            | \/ o \//             N) Children's Program Room          |  
|            _\ `-Y-'/_             O) New Books, Graphic Novels,       |  
|           /  `{><}   \               Travel Guides, Paperbacks        |  
|          /  )      (/'\           P) Circulation Registration         |  
|         (__/   CPL  \__)          Q) Reserved Books                   |  
|        /  \`\_____.-'\-'          R) DVD's                            |  
|       ( || ) )   (  /  )          S) Return Library Books Here        |  
|        \___// `-'\   //   Art is (c) Faux_Pseudo :F_P:		|
|                   `--'    For use by Camberidge Public Library	|
|                                                                       |
`-----------------------------------------------------------------------'

:F_P:#################################Wed Jun 22 2005#################

I appologize to any nethack players.  The & was tastless.

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