X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f996b,293e46f3c3075b56
X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public
From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <news@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [SUGGESTION] Amendment to a.a-a FAQ re: HTML
Date: 1998/05/02
Message-ID: <rUqureAF3xS1EwJT@xemu.demon.co.uk>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 349610537
References: <6hvhk7$5p0$1@tron.sci.fi>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Distribution: world
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: xemu.demon.co.uk:158.152.196.209
X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net
X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 894122701 nnrp-07:14909 NO-IDENT
 xemu.demon.co.uk:158.152.196.209
Organization: 1st Canine Chapel of Bob Dobbs Dog (Church of the SubGenius)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art



In article <6hvhk7$5p0$1@tron.sci.fi>, 
Ilmari Karonen <iltzu@sci.fi> writes:
>
> Q: How can I put ascii art 
     into HTML for webpages? should I put HTML on the newsgroup?

>
> A: To embed ascii art in HTML, first replace all occurrences of "&" in the
>    picture with "&amp;" and of "<" with "&lt;". Then put the HTML tag
>    <PRE> before the picture and </PRE> after it.
>
> Original:
>      ____     _____
>     /  \  _.-'_.-'
>     \  _\/   _/
>   ___)/   __<
>  <'-;:\_  _\
>      '; \_\
>       >/-,\
>     ""`  |_\ snd
> HTML version:
><PRE>
>      ____     _____
>     /  \  _.-'_.-'
>     \  _\/   _/
>   ___)/   __&lt;
>  &lt;'-;:\_  _\
>      '; \_\
>       >/-,\
>     ""`  |_\ snd
></PRE>

  This is a text newsgroup. While nobody will object to a couple of tags
  at the beginning and end, the vast majority of the picture should look
  like 100% readable text: if it looks like a load of HTMLtags, you will
  get flamed by people whose newsreaders don't render it. 

>
> Q: How can I change the font 
>in which ascii art is shown on my WWW page?
>
> A: There are several ways but not every browser supports any of them. 
     The commonest is <font face="courrier">this is in courrier</font>

>The recommended, though not yet very widely
>    supported, way is to use Style Sheets. Just add the following in the
>    HEAD section of your page:
>
><STYLE type="text/css"><!--
>  PRE { font-family: "Best font", "2nd best font", "etc.", monospaced; }
>--></STYLE>
>
>    You can list as many fonts as you like, just keep "monospaced" as the
>    last one. Note: Strictly speaking specifying a font is not pure ascii
>    art. However this _is_ a FAQ, and as long as you don't use proportional
>    fonts the picture will still be viewable as pure ascii. Remember NOT to
>    post HTML in the newsgroup.

  Q: Can I put colours in ascii art? [may be covered already]
  
  A: Standard ascii-art is what all readers can display in plain text
     and has no facility for colours.  You can put colours into HTML-  
     ised ascii-art with <FONT color="FFFF00">maxR+maxG=Yellow</FONT>.


>---(cut here)---------------------------------------------------------

                                            |~/           |~/
~~|;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;||';-._.-;'^';||_.-;'^'0-|~~
P |      Woof Woof, Glug Glug               ||____________||      0  | P
O |   Who Drowned the Judge's Dog?          | . . . . . . . '----. 0 | O
O |         answers on                  *---|_______________  @__o0  | O
L |{a href="news:alt.religion.scientology"}{/a}_____________|/_______| L
and{a href="http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/clam/lynx/q0.html"}{/a}XemuSP4(:)