Re: Need Advice on Coloring ASCII Text
From Bateau <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com>
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· 10 May 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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On Tue, 09 May 2000 22:04:26 GMT Involuntary <inv...@earthlink.net> wrote: >I'm about to make a website using nothing but ASCII formatting on the >surface with HTML in the background for hyperlinks and text coloring. I >want to make it look something like the old BBS systems we all used to use >before the web became so popular. > >I want to use a WYSIWYG editor to color the text so all I have to do is >lay it out in black and white with a text editor, then paste it in a >WYSIWYG editor and insert links and color the text. The problem I'm >running in to is the fact that Front Page Express and Dreamweaver only >allow ONE spacebar character to be used at a time, meaning I can't have >five spacebar characters in a row. Use <PRE> or I'm surprised a WYSIWYG wouldn't handle that automatically. >Now my second hurdle is the speed at which I can color the text. Do you >know of an editor that has a column mode to allow you to select a vertical >selection of text, then choose a color? That would speed things up >immensely. Maybe Word. -- ~ _ ~ . ` ' , ^~ ______ ^ >(')_, ~~ _ __, _ '.___ ; *BANG* ~ (_~_/ >(')_, ` (_~_/ >(')_, `'\ \ ^ ~^~~^~ (_~_/ ~^~~^~ (_~_/ ~~ ICQ:11367619 ~ ^~^ ~^~~^~ ~^~ ~^~~^~ email:bateau at jupiterio.net
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