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or the ascii-art you are sending is wider than 72 characters:
1. Tools menu
2. Options
3. Send
4. Both of these Mail and News format
5. Plain text settings ____
6. Automatically wrap text at |____|
How to set your Outlook Express 6 to view ASCII art correctly:
1. On the TOOLS menu, click OPTIONS
2. Select the READ tab
3. International settings
4. "Use default encoding for all incoming messages" [tick]
5. Set the FONTS to display as western european.
set both the PROPORTIONAL font and FIXED-WIDTH font to
LUCIDA CONSOLE, and FONT SIZE to SMALLER
6. Click OK, then OK again.
How to set your Outlook Express 5 to view ASCII art correctly:
1. On the TOOLS menu, click OPTIONS
2. Select the READ tab
3. Click the FONTS button near the bottom of the box
4. For the languages UNICODE, WESTERN EUROPEAN and USER DEFINED
set both the PROPORTIONAL font and FIXED-WIDTH font to
LUCIDA CONSOLE, and FONT SIZE to SMALLER
5. Click OK, then OK again.
How to set your Outlook Express 4 to view ASCII art correctly:
1. On the TOOLS menu, click OPTIONS
2. Select the READ tab
3. Click the FONTS button near the bottom of the box
4. For the languages UNIVERSAL ALPHABET, USER DEFINED and WESTERN
set both the PROPORTIONAL font and FIXED-WIDTH font to
LUCIDA CONSOLE, and FONT SIZE to SMALLER
5. Click OK, then OK again.
NOTE : If LUCIDA CONSOLE is not available as a font, pick another
from the list of available FIXED-WIDTH fonts.
Examples of fixed-width fonts 1. ANDALE MONO
commonly available with ms.windows: 2. COURIER NEW
3. LUCIDA CONSOLE
4. LUCIDA SANS TYPEWRITER
5. OCR A EXTENDED
If you have followed the above steps correctly, you should now
be able to view and create ASCII art as it should be.
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[20] Where do I find ASCII art pictures, tutorials and information?
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There are a number of ASCII art Usenet groups:-
news:alt.ascii-art
news:alt.ascii-art.animation
news:alt.ascii-art.endless.blabla
news:alt.binaries.pictures.ascii
news:rec.arts.ascii
are English-speaking ones that are widely used.
alt.ascii-art [original ASCII art discussion group]
alt.ascii-art.animation [is about animating ASCII art]
alt.ascii-art.endless.blabla [an off-topic follow-up troll-trap]
alt.binaries.pictures.ascii [ASCII art sofware/image drop-zone]
rec.arts.ascii [primary moderated ASCII art group]
Lots of ASCII artists put up libraries of their own and others'
ASCII art on their Web sites, as well as tutorials on how to draw
ASCII art:
The DMOZ Open Directory Project ASCII art sites:
http://dmoz.org/Arts/ASCII/.
Allen Mullen has links to many of these sites at:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/2695/links.htm.
The Ascii-Art Library at: The Ascii-Art dot com at:
http://www.ascii-art.de http://www.ascii-art.com
The Ascii-Art Document Archive (address as listed in the header)
There is an on-line panel of experts at: The ASCIItorium
http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/
And webrings:
http://artcode.org/ascii/index.php
http://webring.org/ascii/
Also IRCascii.8bit:
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Marina/4942/ascii.htm