Re: Need Advice on Coloring ASCII Text

Anita Doobie - NOW wrote:
> 
> >Subject: Need Advice on Coloring ASCII Text
> >From: Involuntary inv...@earthlink.net
> >Date: 5/9/00 6:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time
> >Message-id: <e82...@4ax.com>
> >
> >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.
> 
>      Groovy.
> 
> >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.
> 
>      That should not be if you are typing in Frontpage when you have selected
> that the text is FORMATTED (ascii friendly) text. Select FORMATTED text, it
> should work then.
> 
>      Or... go see Krogg, he's made a fantastic ANSI to HTM converter, wonderful
> stuff. The files end up being very large however (due to the extensive HTM
> formatting for color).
> 
> http://www.gtcom.net/~krogg/ascii/


BZZZZZZZZZZZZZT wrong!

It was Meph that madethe ansi to htm converter.

German:
http://studenten.freepage.de/meph/ascii/ascii.htm
English:
http://studenten.freepage.de/cgi-bin/feets/freepage_ext/41030x030A/rewrite/meph/ascii/eng/eng.htm

> >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.
> 
>      The fastest way I can think of is to not keep it ASCII and color it, but
> to screen capture the ANSI screens and make them JPG or GIF.
>      If you do that, the way to insert links would be to make the ANSI screens
> the background watermark and place the text over it.
> 
>      Also, you could always turn the ANSI into a Shockwave flash application,
> but that would be a LOT of work. I was fooling around with flash for a while
> but my time expired so I forget most of the program. Sorry.
> 

Dude you is gonna have to do it the hard way,unless you want to use layers
or something else that ends up bieng another _hard way_.......

Personally i wouldnt bother with the coloring,but if you GOT to
color it,have fun.



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