Re: The Best way to make ASCII Art.

Tony Relyea wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:30:49 -0800, Randy Gardner wrote:
> 
> >hassel of learning ASCII codes and trying to use a text editor?
> 
WTF's an ASCII code?
> 
> American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
> 
> After all, this is alt.ascii.art.  An example code is ASCII code 1 (
) 
> or ASCII code 2 ().  One way to do it in many text editors is to hit 

I'm sure that to you it looks like there's something between those
parenthesis (two sorts of smiley faces IIRC), but thers's nothing
there for me. Only DOS/Windows systems show those.

> ALT-code (entered from the number pad).  Unfortunately, many people do 
> not have access to a list of ASCII codes (there are, after all, 256).  

No, there ar not. There are 128 ASCII codes, 256 Extended ASCII codes 
(including the 128 basic ones). On this group, only ASCII-art made with
those basic 128 is acceptable, because art using Extended ASCII looks 
different on different people's machines (DOS/Mac/Unix/Whatever)
Of the 128 basic characters, only those from 32 (space) to 127 (tilde)
are visible, since the other ones are control codes, to which some
programs may respond strangely:
_________________________________________________________________________
|Oct | Dec | Hex | Disp | Symbol |       Char Name        |   Keypress   |
|____|_____|_____|______|________|________________________|______________|
|000 | 000 | 00  | none |  NUL   | Null                   | Ctrl-Shift-@ |
|001 | 001 | 01  |  ^A  |  SOH   | Start of Header        |    Ctrl-A    |
|002 | 002 | 02  |  ^B  |  STX   | Start of Text          |    Ctrl-B    |
|003 | 003 | 03  |  ^C  |  ETX   | End of Text            |    Ctrl-C    |
|004 | 004 | 04  |  ^D  |  EOT   | End of Transmission    |    Ctrl-D    |
|005 | 005 | 05  |  ^E  |  ENQ   | Enquire                |    Ctrl-E    |
|006 | 006 | 06  |  ^F  |  ACK   | Acknowledge            |    Ctrl-F    |
|007 | 007 | 07  |  ^G  |  BEL   | Bell                   |    Ctrl-G    |
|010 | 008 | 08  |  ^H  |   BS   | Back Space             |    Ctrl-H    |
|011 | 009 | 09  |  ^I  |   HT   | Horizontal Tab         |    Ctrl-I    |
|012 | 010 | 0A  |  ^J  |   LF   | Line Feed              |    Ctrl-J    |
|013 | 011 | 0B  |  ^K  |   VT   | Vertical Tab           |    Ctrl-K    |
|014 | 012 | 0C  |  ^L  |   FF   | Form Feed              |    Ctrl-L    |
|015 | 013 | 0D  |  ^M  |   CR   | Carriage Return        |    Ctrl-M    |
|016 | 014 | 0E  |  ^N  |   SO   | Shift Out              |    Ctrl-N    |
|017 | 015 | 0F  |  ^O  |   SI   | Shift In               |    Ctrl-O    |
|020 | 016 | 10  |  ^P  |  DLE   | (or DEL) Delete        |    Ctrl-P    |
|021 | 017 | 11  |  ^Q  |  DC1   | Device Control 1       |    Ctrl-Q    |
|022 | 018 | 12  |  ^R  |  DC2   | Device Control 2       |    Ctrl-R    |
|023 | 019 | 13  |  ^S  |  DC3   | Device Control 3       |    Ctrl-S    |
|024 | 020 | 14  |  ^T  |  DC4   | Device Control 4       |    Ctrl-T    |
|025 | 021 | 15  |  ^U  |  NAK   | Negative Acknowledge   |    Ctrl-U    |
|026 | 022 | 16  |  ^V  |  SYN   | Synchronize            |    Ctrl-V    |
|027 | 023 | 17  |  ^W  |  ETB   | End Transmission Block |    Ctrl-W    |
|030 | 024 | 18  |  ^X  |  CAN   | Cancel                 |    Ctrl-X    |
|031 | 025 | 19  |  ^Y  |   EM   | End of Medium          |    Ctrl-Y    |
|032 | 026 | 1A  |  ^Z  |  SUB   | Substitute             |    Ctrl-Z    |
|033 | 026 | 1A  |  ^[  |  ESC   | Escape                 |    Ctrl-[    |
|034 | 026 | 1A  |  ^\  |   FS   | File Separator         |    Ctrl-\    |
|035 | 026 | 1A  |  ^]  |   GS   | Group Separator        |    Ctrl-]    |
|036 | 026 | 1A  |  ^^  |   RS   | Record Separator       | Ctrl-Shift-^ |
|037 | 026 | 1A  |  ^_  |   US   | Unit Separator         | Ctrl-Shift-_ |
|177 | 127 | 7F  |  ^?  |  DEL   | Delete                 |     DEL      |
|____|_____|_____|______|________|________________________|______________|

> Even I have a hard time remembering what they are.  That is why I 
> created ASCIIART.  Using ASCIIART you can use the mouse and an ASCII 
> pallette to "paint" your text pictures.
>         A couple of years ago, I was working on a game called Quest ][
> (http://www.tidalwave.net/~Shawg/ruw/games.html#quest2).  I needed to 
> design a dozen or so city maps.  I elected to do it in text mode for 
> various reasons.  After making the initial maps using MS-DOS Editor, I 
> decided to make a program that would aid in the design of future maps. 
> The original program was rather small and simple.  I continued to add 
> to it, and then redesigned it and called it ASCIIART.
>         The bottom line is this, don't knock it until you try it.  
> Just because you like using a text editor and using the cryptic code 
> structure doesn't mean that someone else does.  What my program does 
> is allow more people to be able to create good ASCII art.  If you 
> don't want to use it then don't.  But don't assume that everyone else 
> is obsessed with doing things the hard way.
> 
> Tony.
> http://www.tidalwave.net/~Shawg/ruw/

Your program sounds handy when you want to do DOS specific artwork. But
please don't promote it on this group, we don't want all sorts of people
that are new to the group using your program, and sending the results to
this group. If you want to promote your program, please do it on more
DOS specific groups.

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