Answer: What are Figlet fonts?
From Ian Chai <cha...@ta12.cs.uiuc.edu>
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· 3 Nov 1994 00:25 · View full thread
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saw...@iscs.nus.sg (CrystalFire ~{;pCw>'A<~}) writes:
>what's a figlet font..is it a specific font, like Arial and Times New Roman,
>or is it a type/family of fonts, like TrueType and ATM?
>what are the endearing qualities to such fonts that you want them
>so bad? can you roughly describe their appearance?
No, they're fonts for the figlet program
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The "official" ftp site for Figlet is:
ftp.isu.edu:pub/figlet
The Figlet WWW page
http://math.uiuc.edu:80/~chappell/figlet/
lists some other sites.
There is also FIGLET-L, a mailing list for both updates and discussions
about figlet. If you want to be notified of updates to the Figlet
software, email
LIS...@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
with the body of the email saying
subscribe figlet-l your full name
set figlet-l topics=SOFTWARE
where "your full name" should be your full name.
If you want to know about new fonts as well, then it should say
subscribe figlet-l your full name
set figlet-l topics=SOFTWARE,FONTS
If you want to be in on everything, including discussions, then just
subscribe figlet-l your full name
will do the trick.
Remember not to post any discussions under SOFTWARE or FONTS. In fact,
you should never post under SOFTWARE -- it is for "official" releases.
You can post any new nifty software you write for figlet on the normal
discussion, and if I decide to put it in the "official" distribution,
I'll post a notice to SOFTWARE and make it available for ftp.
Ian Chai
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