Reusser <reu### [at] chorusnet> wrote:
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  Using variable width fonts to make ascii-art is always a very bad idea.
In fact, using variable width fonts *at all* in anything that involves
news (reading and writing) is a bad idea. You should never use a variable
width font but always a fixed-width font when reading or writing articles
so that you always can be sure to read and that people read everything in
the way it was intended.
  If you use a variable width font to make ascii-art, you are assuming that
*EVERYONE* in the whole world is using the *EXACT* same font and newsreader
settings than you are.
  It's like assuming that in everyone's house the fridge is exactly 10 meters
and 25 centimeters from the out door of the house and make instructions based
on that assumption.

  Also when using a fixed-width font, the more square the font is, the
better. A very tall font (eg. 16x8 pixels) tends to deform any ascii-art
vertically in unwanted ways.

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