MRO to Anton Shepelev:

I beg everyone's pardon for this clumsy intrusion
into unknown territory, but this is all I can do to
contact the developers and experienced users of
`syncdraw' via NNTP. Its ALT+F1..F10 palettes do not
seem to contain such pseudographical characters as
## 182 and 199 in terms of CP 437, which prevents
junctions between vertical double-width and horison-
tal single-width lines. Are they absent by design?

https://i.imgur.com/IibsieP.png

Many thanks for a direct image link that does not lead
some bloated webpage!

Ouch -- you have font smoothing (aka BlearType) on,
which is so UnANSIstematic. Please, take a closer look
at the characters in `syncdraw' and in the terminal win-
dow, for they are different. The ones in the terminal
are those that I seek, and do not find, in the ANSI edi-
tor. The ones in `syncdraw' are ## 185 and 204.

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MRO to Anton Shepelev:

I beg everyone's pardon for this clumsy intrusion
into unknown territory, but this is all I can do to
contact the developers and experienced users of
`syncdraw' via NNTP. Its ALT+F1..F10 palettes do not
seem to contain such pseudographical characters as
## 182 and 199 in terms of CP 437, which prevents
junctions between vertical double-width and horison-
tal single-width lines. Are they absent by design?

https://i.imgur.com/IibsieP.png

Many thanks for a direct image link that does not lead
some bloated webpage!

Ouch -- you have font smoothing (aka BlearType) on,
which is so UnANSIstematic. Please, take a closer look
at the characters in `syncdraw' and in the terminal win-
dow, for they are different. The ones in the terminal
are those that I seek, and do not find, in the ANSI edi-
tor. The ones in `syncdraw' are ## 185 and 204.

Use 'TheDraw' (DOS program). Pressing Alt-F4 brings up the character
set you want.



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Re: Re: Box-drawing characters 182 and 199 absent in syncdraw
By: Anton Shepelev to All on Tue Jan 10 2023 03:28 pm

https://i.imgur.com/IibsieP.png

Many thanks for a direct image link that does not lead
some bloated webpage!

Ouch -- you have font smoothing (aka BlearType) on,
which is so UnANSIstematic. Please, take a closer look

and you are super wordy.
those characters are ascii, not ansi.

at the characters in `syncdraw' and in the terminal win-
dow, for they are different. The ones in the terminal
are those that I seek, and do not find, in the ANSI edi-
tor. The ones in `syncdraw' are ## 185 and 204.

oh, now i know what you mean. i was drowned a bubbling brook of babble.

just use a different ansi editor.
or contact the author.
nobody uses mysticdraw/syncdraw so they didn't notice.

get a copy of thedraw registered
https://i.imgur.com/S4YJ4KC.png

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MRO to Anton Shepelev:

Ouch -- you have font smoothing (aka BlearType)
on, which is so UnANSIstematic. Please, take a
closer look

and you are super wordy. those characters are
ascii, not ansi.

I meant the general aesthetics of ANSI-art, and no,
those characters are not part of the ASCII 7-bit en-
coding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#/media/File:USASCII_code_chart.png

Please, take a closer look at the characters in
`syncdraw' and in the terminal win- dow, for they
are different. The ones in the terminal are those
that I seek, and do not find, in the ANSI editor.
The ones in `syncdraw' are ## 185 and 204.

oh, now i know what you mean. i was drowned a bub-
bling brook of babble.

Is my writing *that* bad?

just use a different ansi editor. or contact the
author. nobody uses mysticdraw/syncdraw so they
didn't notice.

I will try. This being Synchronet, I thought `sync-
draw' would be a bit more popular here...

get a copy of thedraw registered
https://i.imgur.com/S4YJ4KC.png

I never managed to get a properly registered, rathen
than brutally cracked, copy of the latest version of
TheDraw. I have tried some that claimed to be "regis-
tered", but they were either old, or buggy, or
cracked, or all of those. Futhermore, I prefer a Free
program to a proprietary one.

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Re: Re: Box-drawing characters 182 and 199 absent in syncdraw
By: Anton Shepelev to All on Wed Jan 11 2023 12:16 am

I meant the general aesthetics of ANSI-art, and no,
those characters are not part of the ASCII 7-bit en-
coding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#/media/File:USASCII_code_chart.png dude, do you realize that wikipedia is just a website that anybody can edit. that's high ascii.

I will try. This being Synchronet, I thought `sync-
draw' would be a bit more popular here...

it's not.

I never managed to get a properly registered, rathen
than brutally cracked, copy of the latest version of
TheDraw. I have tried some that claimed to be "regis-
tered", but they were either old, or buggy, or

there is a registered version of thedraw out there with additional
files that go with the registered version. it's not 'brutally cracked'. there is also another copy out there where it's an old version hexedited to seem like the last version. and did you just call something involved with bbsing old?
the bbs hobby IS old.

cracked, or all of those. Futhermore, I prefer a Free
program to a proprietary one.

you get what you pay for. enjoy. there's also a lot of other ansi editors
you could use.

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