On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:10 AM, <rwg@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
Gack. It looks like I can't send formatted ASCII from Gmail.
Sure you can. Make sure you're in plain text mode and then paste in your formatted text. If you're reading formatted ascii in gmail, you can either install a greasemonkey script to force it to be fixed-width font all the time, or you can click on the little blue triangle in the upper right-hand corner of the message and select "Show original". The one thing I really dislike about Gmail's support for formatted ascii is that if the first character is a space, it removes it. So you either have to add an extra space to those lines or prepend every line with a non-space character: . ___ _ . / __|___ ___ __ _| |___ .| (_ / _ \/ _ \/ _` | -_) . \___\___/\___/\__, |_\___| |___/ (This logo replaces the Google image when you search for "ascii art". :) -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://math.ucr.edu/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com