Re: The Tengwar

drsquare <now...@nowhere.co.uk> writes:

> On 21 Dec 2001 22:57:02 +0100, in alt.ascii-art,
>  (Neil Franklin <nei...@franklin.ch.remove>) wrote:
> >drsquare <now...@nowhere.co.uk> writes:
>
> >What is "highlighted"? My terminal does not know such a thing. Do you
> >mean double bright mode,? Or bold mode? Or underlined? Or inverse
> >video mode? Or is that printed out with double strike mode?
>
> I assumed that most people would be viewing it in a program which normally
> displays black on white, and the letters look best white on black, so
> highlighting it reverses the colours, making it look right.

Hint: with ASCII do not make assumptions about the viewers system.
Some can be very surprising.

Even some modern systems have light on dark (like mine, green on
black). And some better modern systems when highlighting do not invert
(how ugly), but rather underlay an different background color, leaving
the foreground colour(s) unchanged (also like mine, black changes to
dark green, but I have also seen white background becoming pastel
yellow or light gray). I have also seen marked text color change to
yellow (on black) or blue/green (on white). And no doubt there exist
even more variants.

So rather write "looks better in light on dark display". That is
neutral of the viewers system type, preferences and highlighting
display method.


> > `,---. `,---. `,---.---.
> >  |   |  |   |  |   |   |
> >  |  -'  |  -'  |  -'  -'
> >  |
> >  |
> >
> >    t      r        n       (Tauran = forest walker) Elf of Mirkwood
> >                            (my middle earth roleplaying character)
>
> Is that in some sort of mud?

Roleplaying games (RPGs) predate MUD by quite a bit. Actually they are
the originals that MUDs were developed from. They are the pre-computer
form, where a group sits around an table, with paper forms (character
sheets) that describe the characters abilities and use many-sided dice
for random numbers to see if something worked and how well it did.

For some example RPG systems see:
http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/lite/
http://www.acc.umu.se/~corps/fudge/fudge.html
most of the other links I have are in German


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