Talk: Figlet fonts

In article <32dlbr$gp...@gagme.wwa.com>, m...@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Martin
Junius) writes:

> The .flf's from the author's posting were MSDOS text files with CR/LF
> end of lines, resulting in the additional `@'. To use them on a UNIX
> system, the CRs must be stripped.
>
> Martin

  So what should I do when I make future Figlet fonts?  Use the CR/LFs and
say that it is specifically a DOS Figlet font, or convert it to just LFs
and post both... seems like a lot of work just to please unix-types.  Is
there any way to get them to work on both without converting them?
  -Den
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Den...@mindlink.bc.ca (Dennis Monbourquette) writes:

>   So what should I do when I make future Figlet fonts?  Use the CR/LFs and
> say that it is specifically a DOS Figlet font, or convert it to just LFs
> and post both... seems like a lot of work just to please unix-types.  Is
> there any way to get them to work on both without converting them?
>   -Den

I think that figlet compiled on MSDOS should be quite happy with LF 
only. (At least compiled with a proper C library?) And I'm sure there 
are a lot of "unix-types" out here! ;-)

Martin
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Dennis Monbourquette:
>  So what should I do when I make future Figlet fonts?  Use the CR/LFs and
>say that it is specifically a DOS Figlet font, or convert it to just LFs
>and post both... seems like a lot of work just to please unix-types.  Is
>there any way to get them to work on both without converting them?

Yup.  Fix figlet to ignore '\r'.  here's a quick patch that makes it
ignore any trailing whitespace in the flf file.

*** 1.1	1994/08/12 13:11:46
--- figlet.c	1994/08/12 13:20:37
***************
*** 481,492 ****
      if (fgets(inputline,charwidthlimit,fontfile)==NULL) {
        inputline[0]='\0';
        }
!     k=strlen(inputline)-1;
!     endchar=k<0?'\0':(k==0||inputline[k]!='\n')?inputline[k]:inputline[k-1];
!     for(;k>=0?(inputline[k]=='\n' || inputline[k]==endchar):0;k--) {
!       inputline[k]='\0';
        }
!     charlist[i]=(char*)my_alloc(sizeof(char)*(strlen(inputline)+1));
      strcpy(charlist[i],inputline);
      }
    fclose(fontfile);
--- 481,500 ----
      if (fgets(inputline,charwidthlimit,fontfile)==NULL) {
        inputline[0]='\0';
        }
!     k = strlen(inputline) - 1;
!     /* skip over trailing spaces. */
!     while (0 <= k && isspace(inputline[k])) {
!       --k;
!     }
!     /* skip over trailing delimiters. */
!     if (0 <= k) {
!       endchar = inputline[k];
!       while (0 <= k && inputline[k] == endchar) {
! 	--k;
        }
!     }
!     inputline[k + 1] = '\0';
!     charlist[i] = (char*) my_alloc(sizeof(char) * (k + 1));
      strcpy(charlist[i],inputline);
      }
    fclose(fontfile);