Re: Need Advice on Coloring ASCII Text

On 10 May 2000 01:50:05 GMT, ton...@aol.com.net.org (Anita Doobie - NOW)
posted a message in news:alt.ascii-art, which said:

> > From: Involuntary inv...@earthlink.net 
> > Message-id: <e82...@4ax.com>
> >
> > 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).

Not only that, but an ascii file uses only 1 byte for a space.  HTML uses
6 bytes for non-breaking spaces.  A very small page I began working on
ended up being 22k.  I haven't got the vertical spacing right yet, and
it's nowhere near complete, but if you're interested in seeing a work in
progress and the type of look I'm going for, go here:

http://home.earthlink.net/~involuntary/dbs/cl-disha.htm

If you're using <gasp> 640x480, you'll have to reduce the font size your
browser is using.  It should display fine on anything 800x600 and up.  I
run at 1280x1024 all the time so the layout only takes up half my screen.

> http://www.gtcom.net/~krogg/ascii/
> 
> > 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.

Hmmm.  Seems like that might cause some problems with different screen
resolutions, but GIF's and solid colors were made for each other.  I may
give it a try for menu screens to see how it works.

>      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.

I never have tried flash.  Since I only have a Pentium 150 non MMX, most
flash sites frustrate me more than anything because they're just plain
jerky...not beef or chicken.  Hehe.

Involuntary

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