Re: Proportional font in XY-Win

[Nathan Sivin nsivin@xxxxxxxx]

I guess I am confused by the larger problem. What is an ASCII map?
"ASCII" designates a group of 256 characters, letters, numbers,
punctuation, and characters used in drawing boxes etc. Most people use
the term for the first 128 of these. I don't see how the 256 can be used
to draw anything that resembles a map, unless you have a very stylized,
non-scale map in mind.

I have never seen a map that isn't in a graphics format. Why does an
ASCII map require a proportional font?

Cheers,
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Nathan Sivin
History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-6304
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