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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 2 Dec 1996.
Re: formatting advice needed

Re: formatting advice needed

Hans Erken (ear...@peg.apc.org) wrote --

> Can anyone give me some basic rules to follow that will keep my format
> stable?  I suspect I have to adhere to a minimum line length or something.

Monospaced font. 0 to 79 characters per line.
Spaces and USASCII characters only.  No tabs.

Simple.
 
Some mail programs (Juno's) and word processors (MS
Weird) can botch up even material as simple as that.

Good luck.

Dan Strychalski   dsk...@cameonet.cameo.com.tw

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From: dsk...@cameonet.cameo.com.tw
Subject: Re: formatting advice needed
Date: 1996/12/02
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organization: Cameo Communications, Inc.
keywords: ASCII art, format
newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
originator: dski@
summary: 0-79 monospaced ASCII characters/spaces per line. No tabs. The End.
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