From: "k-reg" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: cross-browser fonts Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 14:41:23 -0000 Organization: Customer of Energis Squared Lines: 13 Message-ID: <92ksdc$56d$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-85.marine-betta.dialup.pol.co.uk X-Trace: news7.svr.pol.co.uk 978187500 5325 62.137.39.213 (30 Dec 2000 14:45:00 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Dec 2000 14:45:00 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse@theplanet.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!tungurahua!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!diablo.theplanet.net!news.theplanet.net!newspost.theplanet.net!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:16723 Only recently begun to see the genius of ascii,,,,, something to do with the limitations of the medium..... but I have queries.. Which fonts are cross-browser? or PC and Mac? Does any one have any uptodate image_to_ascii converters? What is the smallest default font??? er.......thats already too many questions, sorry ###### Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: cross-browser fonts Date: 30 Dec 2000 17:46:56 +0100 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 79 Message-ID: <6uelypambj.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: <92ksdc$56d$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: chonsp.franklin.ch X-Trace: chonsp.franklin.ch 978194816 1905 10.0.3.2 (30 Dec 2000 16:46:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Dec 2000 16:46:56 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:16726 "k-reg" writes: > Only recently begun to see the genius of ascii,,,,, something to do with the > limitations of the medium..... but I have queries.. Welcome. > Which fonts are cross-browser? or PC and Mac? Prinzipially none, as you never know what fonts all your readers will have installed on their system. Their system may even only have an single fixed nameless font built in (terminals, palmtops, set top boxes, mobile phone, ...)! And don't forget then readers who print it out (possibly on an pinwriter or daisy wheel or even TTY). The best ist to send pure ASCII and to draw it use one of your fonts where all characters are the same width. And then send your stuff so that it will try and use an all charcters same width font of the recievers system. For Email/News simply send as ASCII (no HTML). For Web pages (or HTML Mail if unavoidable) use the 
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tag. Then it should appear as same width, unless the reader has missconfigured their browser (and then you have no chance anyway). > Does any one have any uptodate image_to_ascii converters? Seach the Web for GIFSCII or GIF2ASCI or similar. > What is the smallest default font??? I am sure someone somewhere out there is using 4x6 Pixel. Principially you should not make any assumptions about the recievers equipment, other than that it can display ASCII. There is some real queer stuff out there being used. > er.......thats already too many questions, sorry Better too many than not enough. ob-ASCII, an VT100 terminal: ____________________________________ | | ___________________ | | / || ... ..... || \ | || :::.. ..:: ...::. || | | || :: ..:: :::.... || | / || ..::: ... ::.: || \ | || :::.:: .:. :: .. || | | || ... || | / |`-------------------'| :::: :::: \ | `---------------------' | |__________________________________________| \________________________________________/---. \ / `-. |______________________________________| | ____________________________ ______ ,-' __|__|_|_================_|_|__|_|__|_|_|_ / |__________________________________________|-' |__________________________________________| Hmm, its a bit un-shaped, but them slightly angled lines are difficult. Real picture of one: http://www.telnet.hu/hamster/pdp-11/egyeb/VT100.JPG And yes, I do have one of these, but mine is beige and has a green screen. And yes, I really should put pictures of my collection on the net. -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Hacker, Unix Guru, El Ing, Sysadmin, Roleplayer, LARPer, Mystic ###### From: ad Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: cross-browser fonts Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 18:51:44 +0500 Organization: Sent via Graf's Inn at news://relhum.org Message-ID: <3A4F39F0.5187979B@mix.ru> References: <92ksdc$56d$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk> <6uelypambj.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> X-ORIG-Posting-Host: 213.24.7.123 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ORIG-Trace: graf.relhum.org 978274069 23212 213.24.7.123 (31 Dec 2000 14:47:49 GMT) X-ORIG-Complaints-To: abuse@relhum.org X-ORIG-Posting-Date: 31 Dec 2000 14:47:49 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: ru,en X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 38 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!tungurahua!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!news.relhum.org!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:16753 Neil Franklin wrote: > For Email/News simply send as ASCII (no HTML). For Web pages (or HTML > Mail if unavoidable) use the 
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tag. > Then it should appear as same width, unless the reader has > missconfigured their browser (and then you have no chance anyway). Well, and what about _ _ _ _ / \ ( \ ( \ ` ) ( ASCADING \ TYLE \ HEETS ( \_/ \_) \_) o Isn't it the solution for this case? But well, they could disable it too.. ;) > -- > Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ > Hacker, Unix Guru, El Ing, Sysadmin, Roleplayer, LARPer, Mystic ObASCII: ____ /(_)=\ Minimization of `````` that VT-100 terminal ;) | /| / | / |\ mail to / | | \ ad at mix / /| |\ \ dot ru / /a| |d\ \ / /_ | |__\ \ _/____||_______\______ ( http://rex.mix.ru/ad ) ###### Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: cross-browser fonts Date: 01 Jan 2001 14:56:32 +0100 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 28 Message-ID: <6uhf3jnzov.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: <92ksdc$56d$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk> <6uelypambj.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> <3A4F39F0.5187979B@mix.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: chonsp.franklin.ch X-Trace: chonsp.franklin.ch 978357392 723 10.0.3.2 (1 Jan 2001 13:56:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Jan 2001 13:56:32 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:16757 ad writes: > Neil Franklin wrote: > > > Then it should appear as same width, unless the reader has > > missconfigured their browser (and then you have no chance anyway). > > / \ ( \ ( \ ` ) > ( ASCADING \ TYLE \ HEETS ( > \_/ \_) \_) o > > Isn't it the solution for this case? > But well, they could disable it too.. ;) At least Netscape has an option to kill them. > ObASCII: > ____ > /(_)=\ Minimization of > `````` that VT-100 terminal ;) Cool. -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng FH/BSc, Sysadmin, Roleplayer, LARPer, Mystic ###### From: ad Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: cross-browser fonts Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 00:44:40 +0500 Organization: Sent via Graf's Inn at news://relhum.org Message-ID: <3A50DE28.5102A52F@mix.ru> References: <92ksdc$56d$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk> <6uelypambj.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> <3A4F39F0.5187979B@mix.ru> <6uhf3jnzov.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> X-ORIG-Posting-Host: 213.24.7.68 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ORIG-Trace: graf.relhum.org 978381609 9730 213.24.7.68 (1 Jan 2001 20:40:09 GMT) X-ORIG-Complaints-To: abuse@relhum.org X-ORIG-Posting-Date: 1 Jan 2001 20:40:09 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: ru,en X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 44 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!news.tesion.net!news.belwue.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!news-was.dfn.de!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!news.relhum.org!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:16766 Neil Franklin wrote: > > > Then it should appear as same width, unless the reader has > > > missconfigured their browser (and then you have no chance anyway). > > / \ ( \ ( \ ` ) > > ( ASCADING \ TYLE \ HEETS ( > > \_/ \_) \_) o > > Isn't it the solution for this case? > > But well, they could disable it too.. ;) > At least Netscape has an option to kill them. Yep, and IE too, as far as I know, but they are rarely killed, because they're mostly harmless.. ObASCII: ------------------------ .===========. | | | | /|\ | | /a|d\ | |___________| |_________-_|_,-. [_____________] ) .,,,,,,,,,, ,,. (_ /,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,\ (>`\ (______.-``-._____) \__) slim desktop with BTC natural keyboard ------------------------ | /| / | / |\ mail to / | | \ ad at mix / /| |\ \ dot ru / /a| |d\ \ / /_ | |__\ \ _/____||_______\______ ( http://rex.mix.ru/ad )