Re: Variable width ascii-art
From Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 24 Oct 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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.----- On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 14:09:57 GMT, Jan-Erik Finnberg posted: |On 14 Oct 1999 03:19:20 GMT, spu...@aol.comQQ (Spunk1111) wrote: | |>>Message-id: <380...@news.icenet.fi> |> |>>Has anyone ever made decent looking ascii-art using, say, Times new |>>roman? |> |>why? so it'll look good in that one |>particular font -- on one system? |>I suppose you could. AOLers make |>their 'macros' in the AOL Arial-10 font. |>However, fonts vary from system to |>system -- even those that have the |>same name! Personally I'd hate to |>spend all the time creating a text |>art picture that could only be seen/ |>appreciated by a handful of people. | |Yes, I understand that, but I'm pretty sure you could do some pretty |impressive stuff with variable-width fonts, since you could make the |same shape using different ways. I know you can do that with "regular" |ascii as well, but it could be an interesting sub-section of |"ascii"-art. | '-------------------------------- Where people have wanted ascii-ish art in a non-fixed font I've usually just used a fixed-width picture and then used Paul Burton's AnyFont program to respace it to work in a proportional font. I think you can get anyfont from the Windows bit of the FIGlet FTP site... ftp://ftp.internexus.net/pub/figlet/program/windows/ or by HTTP... http://ftp.internexus.net/pub/figlet/program/windows/ Obviously, you can re-tweak the output from this program. Kind Regards, -Martin |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
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