Gonzalo, I don't know how many books for younger readers have ASCII art in their plain text versions, but I do know of one book that has a ton of it, because it is one of my donations to Project Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39442 I modified Read Etexts because I felt that my own e-book reader should be able to read my own donation. When I originally wrote Read Etexts Read only supported PDF, so my own Activity made a lot of books available that you could not get before. Now that Read supports EPUB (and does it better than the Nook does) plain text may not be an attractive option for children. The main screenshot for the Activity in ASLO shows reading a book using monospace font: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4035 James Simmons 2012/4/27 Gonzalo Odiard <[email protected]> > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Manuel Quiñones <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi James (resending to the list). >> >> El día 26 de abril de 2012 20:45, James Simmons <[email protected]> >> escribió: >> > Manuel, >> > >> > I just changed the font for Read Etexts to monospace. Read Etexts is >> for >> > the "plain text" files distributed by Project Gutenberg. Most of these >> > titles look just fine in the Sans font I was using before, but some with >> > family trees, tables and other ASCII art really need a monospaced font. >> Now >> > that the core Read Activity can also read PLain Text files you might >> want to >> > default to monospace for that kind of file. >> >> Interesting, so monospace may be a nice default for simple text in Read. >> >> > Or we can add a "Monospace" button to change the font in the text files if > needed. > I don't think Monospace is the best option in general, > but I don't know how many books include ascii art or tables. > > Gonzalo > >
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