Sender: eggplant eggplant, message area: ASCIIArt Title: Re: Drawing on many prawn patterns to create a signature file Sending station: BBS Westward Journey Station Tue Nov 27 13:45:13 2001 As mentioned in mock mock's masterpiece: : Concerning this Braille, it’s actually a matter of opinion. : In ancient writing, strokes were often rearranged for some reasons that were not taboo. : For example, one more dot, one less dot, the dot becomes a small vertical stroke, etc. : This can be regarded as one of the charms of Chinese characters, while alphabetical characters cannot. I've been having a lot of headaches about this recently. The textbook used in a Chinese class I teach has two ways of writing two characters next to the vertical heart in the same lesson book. One is like this That’s how we usually write But the other one is like this It’s probably a trend in running script This can only be said to be that there is no unified standard for input methods and fonts in Hong Kong and Taiwan. I don’t even know how to explain it to the students. But from this, we can also infer that people in Taiwan can be so casual when making fonts. Different fonts in printed materials that we usually see will have different strokes. This may have something to do with it. :P : Of course some people like realism, it’s a matter of style. : Realism may be a result of restricted thinking, or it may be a clumsy style. : This is just like the charm of Chinese characters, it is also very attractive. : The real success of an ASCII work lies not in image and reality, : But it lies in what is revealed behind his back. : Look at my recent works, almost all of them are realistic, : If pure realism had no meaning at all, I wouldn’t put so much effort into creating it. :........................