Re: Capacitor Help

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <vardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Bart,

At 02:19 PM 12/17/2005, you wrote:
> Hi Terry,
>
> The circuit I just drew in "ascii art" using fixed width font sure 
> came out ugly!

The fixed width font is lost since it is converted to pure ASCII with 
no text fomatting at all.  Depending on what the default font is on 
the mail reader, it may loose alighnment.  Also, spaces and tabs seem 
to get confused by different mail programs and conversions.  Here is 
how it looked when I got the post on the other account but told the 
mail program to use fixed width font:

http://hot-streamer.com/temp/BartPic01.gif

Still fairly readable.  ASCII art has to be "pure" ASCII without any 
font or HTML effects.  Like in the computer punch card days.  Even 
then, ASCII art is pretty varaible...

> It even duplicated some parts of the circuit? what's up with that?

Probably word wrap on the mail reader.

> I can see variable font moving text around, but duplication? Makes 
> the circuit wrong.

Make sure it in not wrapping at like 72 or 80 characters.  The 
picture above shows how it looked when I got the post through the 
Tesla list.  Here is how I think you meant for it to look:

http://hot-streamer.com/temp/BartPic02.gif

> I opened up the sent file, and perfect, no duplication.
>
> Just thought it odd. Haven't seen that before.

The fonts and HTML tags and effects can do all kinds of wild 
things.  When all that is stripped out of a post, goodness knows what 
will be left.  It sometimes works with notepad or a pure ASCII 
program that does not even try to do fonts or anything else.  That 
tends to make code that the conversion does not mess up.  But it is 
still iffy...

Cheers,

        Terry


> Take care,
> Bart