Re: [pic] Font

Lester5374 <les...@aol.com> wrote:

>I e-mailed Ian and this was what I got back:

>**
>**Subj:	 Re: Figlet font editor?
>**Date:	98-05-28 10:44:08 EDT
>**From:	cha...@uiuc.edu (Ian Chai)
>**To:	Les...@aol.com
>**
>**>     I was told in alt.ascii-art that there was a figlet font editor to make
>**>fonts with, but I can't find it here. Do you have one? Thank you very much.
>**
>**It's under development by the FigWin fellow, Paul Burton.
>**
>**God bless,
>**	Ian


Having now read the Figlet Manual I suspect we that have been asking
the wrong question...because dozens of fonts have been figletised in
past years and what we were looking for was a Figletiser rather than
an Editor for existing Figlet files.

Mind you I may be wrong and Ian Chai may have thought you were
looking for something specific for use with WINDOWS 95 rather than
good old MS-DOS and other operating systems, because he does refer
to "the Figwin fellow, Paul Burton".

There are many people on the Net who have no clue how to do anything
outside of the WINDOWS 95 shell.

         where are the Figletisers...
                    \               dunno, just can't see any
                                      inside of my 95 Windows...
                        ____       ____  /
              <----    = =\\\     o o\\\
                      /<   c     /<   c
          ___ _______/__D_/'_   /__,_/\___
         /(- /(\_\________   \     '\_/   \
         \ ) \ )_      \o     \   |  o     \
         /|\ /|\       |'     |   | |'  |  |
                       |     _\   | |   |  \
                       //\____|   | //\_|  |
                      /-,---/     |/-,--|__|
                     / /   _)     / /   /(
                    / /    /     / /    \ )_
                   ( (    <     ( (    < \\
                    \ \    \     \ \    \
                     \ \    |     \ \    |
                      \_\____\     \_\____\
                     ___\_\_\     ___\_\_\
                    ((((,,,,o)   ((((,,,,o) . ..  b'ger




Here is another snippet from a 1993 posting by the Figlet authors
but the email addresses will have changed in the last 5 years:


======================================================================

Using figlet
------------

At the shell prompt, type "figlet".  Then type, say, "Hello, world!"
and press return.  "Hello, world!" in nice, big, designer characters
should appear on your screen.  If you chose standard.flf to be the
default font, you should see
 _   _      _ _                             _     _ _
| | | | ___| | | ___    __      _____  _ __| | __| | |
| |_| |/ _ \ | |/ _ \   \ \ /\ / / _ \| '__| |/ _` | |
|  _  |  __/ | | (_) |   \ V  V / (_) | |  | | (_| |_|
|_| |_|\___|_|_|\___( )   \_/\_/ \___/|_|  |_|\__,_(_)
                    |/
(By the way, the above is meant to be diplayed in a monospaced
font.) Then type something else, or type an EOF (typically control-
D) to quit figlet.

Now you can send the output of figlet to a file (e.g., "figlet >
file") and e-mail it to your friends (who will probably say, "Wow!
It must have taken you hours to put that together!")

To use other fonts, use the "-f" command line option.  For example,
if you had said "figlet -f smslant" above, you would have seen

   __  __    ____                         __   ____
  / /_/ /__ / / /__      _    _____  ____/ /__/ / /
 / __  / -_) / / _ \_   | |/|/ / _ \/ __/ / _  /_/
                   |/

Here are some other useful command line options:

-c  center -- centers the output of figlet.
-t  terminal -- figlet asks your terminal how wide it is, and uses
    this to determine when to break lines.  Normally, figlet assumes
    80 columns so that people with wide terminals won't annoy the
    people they e-mail figlet output to.
-D  Deutsch -- switches to the German character set.  Turns `[', `\'
    and `]' to umlauted A, O and U, respectively.  `{', `|' and `}'
    turn into the respective lower case versions of these.  `~' turns
    into s-z.
-p  paragraph mode -- eliminates some spurious line breaks when
    piping a multi-line file through figlet.
-F  Fonts -- lists the available figlet fonts.
-v  version -- prints information about your copy of figlet.

For in-depth explanations of these and other otions, see the man page.


Other Stuff
-----------

Although you don't have to design your own fonts to use figlet, we'd
certainly like it if lots of people did make up new figlet fonts.
If you feel like giving it a try, see the "FONT FILE FORMAT" section
of the man page.

See "Other Things to Try" in the EXAMPLES section of the man page
for...  well... other things to try.


Authors
-------

figlet was written mostly by Glenn Chappell <gg...@uiuc.edu>.  The
author not being an e-mail fanatic, most correspondence (bug
reports, rave reviews, etc.) should be directed to his secretary
(who is definitely an e-mail fanatic), Ian Chai <spe...@uiuc.edu>
(or fig...@uiuc.edu).

========================================================================

Bye,

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