viewing posted schematics on this site

recommended mono-font and still no luck. The symbols just don't line up.

I use Thunderbird as a usenet client. Not the best one around, but it's free and it shows monospaced content perfectly fine.

I'm actually frustrated enough with the state-of-the-art newsreaders (both web based and native clients), that I've considered creating my own. Only problem is I lack the time to do so.

the recommended mono-font and still no luck.  The symbols just don't line up.

I'll point my finger at google. (but I could be wrong.) Are you using the new google groups or the old one?

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George H.

o the recommended mono-font and still no luck.  The symbols just don't li ne up.

Hmm well my 'test' looked the same in the old and new google groups... So that's not it.

Maybe google chrome? I'm not using that.

George H.

recommended mono-font and still no luck. The symbols just don't line up.

"State of the art" generally comports with "crap". Observe Windows 7 :-(

I been using Agent as my newsreader since forever. I'm now up to version 6. Really has changed much all these years. ...Jim Thompson

recommended mono-font and still no luck. The symbols just don't line up.

Google groups defaults to a variable width font. It also removes what it considers 'excess spaces'. On the right side of a displayed message is a curved arrow pointing up, and to the left. To the right of that is a downward pointing arrowhead. Click that, the 'Show original' to open a new tab that displays the message in whatever fixed font your browser uses. It also has the full header information.

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I'm using Win7 with IE10 and its default Windows Live Mail (WLM) news reader. It uses a variable width font for plain text and there seems to be no way to change this except by changing to RTF and using Courier (or other monospace) font. Instead of fooling with that, I just copy/paste the ASCII ART schematic into a text file.

I prefer using LTSpice for simple schematics as it allows for much clearer symbols, as well as simulation, of course, and subsequent editing. I also like to take a screenshot (Alt-FN-End) and copy into Paint and save as PNG and upload to my server like this:

I also sometimes put the ASC file there as well:

Paul

recommended mono-font and still no luck. The symbols just don't line up.

you means like this one?

right click the down-triangle button on the right called "more message actions" and select "show original"

_ test123 _ _ ____ _____ | |_ ___ ___| |_/ |___ \|___ / | __/ _ \/ __| __| | __) | |_ \ | || __/\__ \ |_| |/ __/ ___) | \__\___||___/\__|_|_____|____/

google didn't invent this messaging system, (usenet) they just implemneted a fairly poor web-based interface to it

recommended mono-font and still no luck.  The symbols just don't line up.

Single-line paragraphs instead of format-flowed like the rest of us, suggests he's using the new one.

The new one now has view original so it's usable for reading ASCII-art schematics, you just need to know how.

recommended mono-font and still no luck. The symbols just don't line up.

Copy and paste in Notepad.

recommended mono-font and still no luck. The symbols just don't line up.

Thank you Group !!! The "show original" option in Google Chrome worked just fine. So did the "copy to notepad" method that was suggested.

Thanks again, Ivan Vegvary