I copy ASCII art diagrams to notepad where they normally display properly.
Occasionally this doesn't work.

The diagram you refer to was from me and displays correctly in the version
you copied back.
I do not go out of my way to use constant width font when sending - maybe I
should.
I'm not even aware that I can to do this explicitly in ASCII for part of a
message using IE5.
What email software are you using and how do you achieve this?

.


      Russell McMahon
_____________________________

From: "Kevin Olalde" <kolalde@HOME.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, 1 September 2001 01:37
Subject: Re: [OT]: Bad art (was: Design Challenge - ...)


> I've often wondered why ASCII art was so hard.  Most of the drawings I've
seen
> posted are not readable.  Is it just that folks are forgetting to create
such
> pieces of art with a mono spaced font (I know I always read email with
such a
> font)?  Or are different mono spaced fonts just not going to work (which
doesn't
> make sense to me)?
>
> Kevin
>
> > ____________________Vout__________
> >                            |
> >                           _
> >                           V Diode
> >                           --
> >                            |-----------
> >                           R            |
> >     -----               R 1      ===  C
> >              \|           R            |
> >        Q   /|--------- |             |
> >            V            R            |
> >             |             R2          |
> >             |             R            |
> >             |              |             |
> > -----------------------------------

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