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Original Usenet message from rec.arts.ascii, 16 Jun 1994.
Re: Talk & Line: Scarecrow Sigs

Re: Talk & Line: Scarecrow Sigs

In article <2tqf00$oq...@gagme.wwa.com>,
N M Miners  <N.M...@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>Bob Allison (bob...@gagme.wwa.com) wrote:
>
>:    There are other variations, but I will save them for other posts.  For 
>: those of you who are interested, I have over a hundred sigs.  I try to 
>: use a different one every time.  And I try to keep making new ones.
>
>:         .ooo.  .oo.   .ooo oooo.  ooooo  .oo. oooo.   .oooo.  oo  oo  oo
>:        (88***:88*** d88*88 88**8b 88***.88*** 88**8b :88**88: 88  88  88
>:        '88b  88F   d88  88 88 .8P 88oo 88F    88 .8P:88    88:88  88  88
>:          Y88 ?88  :8888888 8888"  88** ?88    8888" :88    88:88  88  88
>:           888 *8b..88L  88 88'8b  88... *8b.. 88'8b  '8b..d8' 88bd88bd8F
>:       :88888F  "*8F 88  88 88 '8F 8888F  "*8F 88 '8F  ^*88*^  88F"88F"
>
>This one ^ is a pretty cool one.  As you may know now, I am interested in 
>new ascii fonts for my sigs (and vice versa) and I would like to ask you 
>this:  When you create a new sig, do you use a printout on acetate and 
>put it up to the screen to use as a template (which is a method mentioned 
>in the FAQ) or do you just create them from scratch?  I did the latter 
>for my roman.flf figlet font, which is why it took so long to create, but 
>I imagine it would have been much easier and quicker to use the former 
>method.
>
>Until a bit later,
>
> _______   _     _   _______   ______
>(_______) |_|   |_| (_______) (____  \
>    _      _     _   _     _   ____)  ) 
>   | |    | |   | | | |   | | |  __  /
>   | |    | |___| | | |___| | | |  \ \
>   |_|     \_____/   \_____/  |_|   |_|
>
>                 N.M...@durham.ac.uk


   I make them from scratch.  Sometimes the idea is mine, sometimes I see 
somebody else do a font style, and I learn it and use it too.  And as I 
mentioned before, some are just diddled into existance.

--
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     ___   ____   __  _____  . ____    ____  _____  '  ____   __  __  __
  '     |      |    \'      \       \      |       \        \   \   \   | '.
'  .  ( .   | '. /_  |  |_  /    |_  |  | .    |_  /    /.   |         /
  ___   \   |__       \     \__   ___   |__ '      \__  \_   |    |   |. '
'       /.     |/      \|      |     |     |.  |      |     /.   /   /  . +
  .   '     *  .     +   '  .      * '       :        +      .  '    *    .

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From: bob...@gagme.wwa.com (Bob Allison)
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Subject: Re: Talk & Line: Scarecrow Sigs
Date: 16 Jun 1994 16:29:53 -0500
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