Re: Bored beyond belief

Hello CeeJay,

CeeJay wrote:
> 
> > Turn it into a figlet font.
> 
> I already did. - I posted it in alt.binaries.pictures.ascii (because this is
> not a binaries group)

I do not have access to that group, can you post the font to me?

> However it has a few bugs *g* , mainly because I had to guess how the figlet
> font format works.
> If anyone could supply me with info about the format it would be much
> apreciated.

The "FIGfont Version 2 FIGfont and FIGdriver Standard" can be found
right here:
  http://www.jave.de/docs/figfont.txt

> Oh .. btw .. Markus , if you're reading this : The JavE Figlet font creation
> stinks .. it needs to be documented and easier to use.

Ok, I will write documentation about it - propably later this day.
I don't know how to make it easier to use. The main goal was to solve
the problem that there are many fonts already finished in a format like
this:

(font created by bug)
       $               $      
.s*s.d $s*s. .s*s. .s*s$ .s*s.
$   $$ $   $ $     $   $ $===*
`*=*'T T*=*' `*=*' `*=*T `*=*'
                              
 .s=.       $     o    o $    
 $    .s*s. $s*s. s    s $ .s 
s$s=  $   $ $   $ $    $ $$'  
 $    `*=*$ $   $ $    $ $`*s 
      `*=*'          *=*      

o o o

It is a lot of work selecting each character, moving it to the right
position, adding line-endings, etc. to fit the FIGlet font format. And
it is hard work to figure out all the layout numbers for the header...

So the figlet font assistant creates a mask:

abcde
fghijk
..

to fit to the characters and extracts all of them itself...
Ok, you will find more about it in the documentation I will write (along
with some screenshots).

> I suggest letting the user input each char one by one - this reduces the
> risk of JavE guesswork fouling things up.

That's exactly what I want to avoid: I don't want the user to cut and
paste each character by hand... I have successfully converted two fonts
with my assistant tool and I agree that it is by no means perfect - but
with some documentation it should be ok.

Markus
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