Re: Need Advice on Coloring ASCII Text

>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/

>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.

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