Re: So, You Want To Make Text Art?

On 5 Jan 2000 12:35:59 GMT, alf...@innocent.com (Gerfried Fuchs) wrote:

> Well, on my C64 (which I prodly still have!) there are loads of
>combinations on the keys that are not standard at all, too ;))

Yes, but I think we can safely assume no-one posts here using a C64
*knocks on wood*

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>> Do not use any other characters.

> You have forgot to mention that you can use both uppercase and
>lowercase letters. It's neat - strange that noone has thought about that
>before (or haven't I simply not noticed that?).

Well, I think most people would figure that out. On the other hand I
don't think that many alphanumerical characters are used in the artsy
part of ASCII-pictures. They're mostly used in signs and so forth. (I
know someone is going to reply with a picture full of mixed-case
letters) 

>> Ob (non-)ascii: picture of my keyboard.
>> 
>>  ,---.    ,---.---,---.---, ,---.---.---,
>>  |Esc|    |F1 |F2 |F3 |F4 | |F5 |F6 |F7 | Rest snipped, you propably
>>  |   |    |   |   |   |   | |   |   |   | got the idea already...
>>  `---'    `---^---^---^---' `---^---^---^

I just realized that would hale looked SOO much better like this:

 ,---.    ,---v---v---v---, ,---v---v---v
 |Esc|    |F1 |F2 |F3 |F4 | |F5 |F6 |F7 |
 |   |    |   |   |   |   | |   |   |   |
 `---'    `---^---^---^---' `---^---^---^

Then again, maybe not....

> Pound sign ($) over here.

That's a dollar sign!

>> �= umlaut, two dots 

> So you can procuse the umlaut o with either the key or with this and o?
>Did I get that right?

Yep. First press the umlaut, then a,e,i,o,u,y,
the same with the "pretty much '"-key, press it (or `) and a,e,i,o,u,y
or "^" or "~" and some other key... 

> This one is really terrific!!!  I simply _love_ it. Maybe we should

Aww, it's not that good.. *basks*

>produce a html-version of this to show the differences with all the
>different keyboard layouts? And of cause the special characters unicoded
>:)

If you want to do it, use my keyboard as a template, if you wish, I'm
too lazy. I might have had too much time to make my own keyboard, but to
make more...

> Oh, and I really love the way you did the windows- and them menu-key :)

They look a bit bad on my end, though, because Lucida console has the
tilde at about  the same height as the dash, so it looks something like
this:              While it of course SHOULD look like this:

        |  |       /\/   |  |
      --+--+--         --+--+--
  /\/   |  |             |  |
      --+--+--         --+--+--
        |  |             |  |
                   /\/

  /\/

So I did those keys with other fonts in mind.


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