A quick guide to ASCIIArt Viewing Fonts, Text Editors and ASCII Utilities

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| |\/| |/ _ \| '_ \ / _ \/ __| '_ \ / _` |/ __/ _ \/ _` |
| |  | | (_) | | | | (_) \__ \ |_) | (_| | (_|  __/ (_| |
|_|_ |_|\___/|_| |_|\___/|___/ .__/ \__,_|\___\___|\__,_|
 / _| ___  _ __ | |_ ___     |_|
| |_ / _ \| '_ \| __/ __|
|  _| (_) | | | | |_\__ \ - a quick list
|_|  \___/|_| |_|\__|___/

Almost all ASCII art is created and intended to be viewed in a monospaced,
or fixed width font. Find your operating system/computer on the list below
and find a font on your system that is on the list.

Windows:  FixedSys
          Courier New
          Courier
          Lucida Console
          Topaz New
          Monotype.com
          Terminal
          Lucida Sans Typewiter

Amiga:    Topaz    (In ROM)
          Courier  (Supplied with WorkBench 2+)
          Pearl
          Siesta
          XEN      (Comes with MagicWB)
          XCourier (Comes with MagicWB)
          ascii
          tiny

AppleMac: Courier
          Monaco
          ZTerm

If you can`t find any of the fonts on the list, please try looking at this
in all fonts available:

iiiii iiiii iiiii iiiii|
mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm|

In a fixed width font, both of the | symbols should match in distance from
the left side of the screen. If you find a common font that isn`t on the
list, please email me and tell me about it, along with what operating
system/computer it is from. My address is at the foot of this file.

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 _____         _
|_   _|____  _| |_
  | |/ _ \ \/ / __|
  | |  __/>  <| |_
 _|_|\___/_/\_\\__|
| ____|__| (_) |_ ___  _ __ ___
|  _| / _` | | __/ _ \| '__/ __|
| |__| (_| | | || (_) | |  \__ \
|_____\__,_|_|\__\___/|_|  |___/

A lot of ASCII art is made in a text editor - usually like a wordprocessor
but without text formatting functions.

Unix:      vi
           pico
           emacs
           jed
           joe
           ed

Windows95: Notepad (Comes with Windows!)
           EDIT.COM (Comes with windows!)
           MicroEMACS
           EditPad
           PFE

Windows3:  Notepad (Comes with Windows!)
           MicroEMACS
           PFE

MSDOS:     EDIT.COM (Comes with DOS 5 and 6 - Type EDIT at command line)
           QEdit
           MicroEmacs
           GNU Emacs

Amiga:     Ed (On Workbench Disk - run 'Ed <filename>' in shell)
           MicroEMACS (Supplied with Workbench on Extras disk)
           Blacks Editor
           CygnusEd
           AZ
           NotePad (included with Workbench 1.2 and 1.3)

AppleMac:  Nisus
           SimpleText (included with MacOS)
           TeachText (included with MacOS)
           Note Pad (included with MacOS)
           Saint Edit (shareware $10)
           BBEdit (commercial but free lite version available)

Linux:     joe

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    _    ____   ____ ___ ___
   / \  / ___| / ___|_ _|_ _| _   _ _   _ _
  / _ \ \___ \| |    | | | | | | | | |_(_) |___
 / ___ \ ___) | |___ | | | | | | | | __| | / __|
/_/   \_\____/ \____|___|___|| |_| | |_| | \__ \
 ---------------------------  \___/ \__|_|_|___/

Some utils to help with the creation of ASCIIArt:

* FIGlet
    This great program makes ascii 'banners' from text - the titles in
   these lists are a good example.
    A few more examples:
               _____ ___ ____ _      _
              |  ___|_ _/ ___| | ___| |_
              | |_   | | |  _| |/ _ \ __|
              |  _|  | | |_| | |  __/ |_
              |_|   |___\____|_|\___|\__|

              88888888888 88   ,ad8888ba,  88
              88          88  d8"'    `"8b 88              ,d
              88          88 d8'           88              88
              88aaaaa     88 88            88  ,adPPYba, MM88MMM
              88"""""     88 88      88888 88 a8P_____88   88
              88          88 Y8,        88 88 8PP"""""""   88
              88          88  Y8a.    .a88 88 "8b,   ,aa   88,
              88          88   `"Y88888P"  88  `"Ybbd8"'   "Y888

              8"""" 8  8""""8
              8     8  8    " e     eeee eeeee
              8eeee 8e 8e     8     8      8
              88    88 88  ee 8e    8eee   8e
              88    88 88   8 88    88     88
              88    88 88eee8 88eee 88ee   88

    Various fonts are availiable (.flf files) and there are versions
   of FIGlet for almost any operatinf system and computer type:
       http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/figlet.html
       ftp://nicoh.com/pub/figlet/

    There are also many online, web based versions of FIGlet available
   also, one of which is http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/

    If you are a DOS user, you can get a GUI for DOS FIGlet at:
       http://voices.vossnet.co.uk/a/atkins/fdgui1.zip
   which should make the running of FigDOS easier.

* GIFscii
    GIFscii, and it`s variants, will take an image file (usually GIF)
   and convert it to an ascii picture. The results arn`t brilliant,
   but can serve as a good starting point for an ASCII picture
    Do a web search for one of these, as they are everywhere.
   Versions are available for a wide variety of operating systems
   and computer types.
           .- Sample output from BMP2ASC -----.
           |         ;$XXHXXXXXXX+.           |
           |      :XXXHHHHHXHHHHXXX$.         |
           |    /XXXXHHHXXHHHHHHHXXXH/        |
           |   /XXXXXHHH$HHHHHHHHHHHHH%       |
           |  .XXXXXXHHX$HHHHHHHHHHHHHH;      |
           |  ;XXXXXHX$XX$$$XHHHHHHHHXHX.     |
           | .$XXXH%/;;;::::;/$HHHHHHHXX;     |
           | =XXXHX//;;:::::;;/+HXHHHHHH$     |
           | /HXXH$//;;;;::::;;/$XHHHHHXX-    |
           | %HXXH%/;;;;;;;;+$$%$XHHHHHHX/    |
           | XXXXHX$X$%+//+++;$%HXHHHHHHX$.   |
           |.XXXXHX+/////://;///+$XHHH@HHHHH/.|
           |,X$XXHH%;;;;/;///;;;+$XHHH@HHHH@@@|
           |-X$XXH@H+/++/;/++;//%XHHHH@HHHH@@@|
           |=$$XXHHH@@%%$$%++++%$XXHHHHHXH@@@@|
           |=$$XXX$$@@@H%++++%%%$$XHXH@HH@@@@@|
           |=$XHXX%$@@@@@%+++%$%$$XXXHH$H@@@@@|
           |-+%XHHH@@@@@@@X+/+%$$$$$$%%/=$@@@@|
           | //XXXH@@@@@@@@@@@@X%%++///=--/H@@|
           |   %XXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X+;/;;=-,,,-$@|
           |  =XHXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X/,. ..-,..,,/|
           |  $H@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@XH;....,......|
           '------------------- for Windows! -'

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            |Compiled by Martin Atkins with help from:|
            | * Veronica Karlsson                     |
            | * Jorn Barger                           |
            | * Colin Douthwaite                      |
            | * Randy Gardner                         |
            | * Ilmari Karonen                        |
            | * aardvarko                             |
            | * gumby                                 |
            | * Valentin Valciu                       |
            | * Hayley Jane Wakenshaw                 |
            | * llizard                               |
            | * Sami Sihvonen                         |
            | * Doug Wilson                           |
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aardvarko wrote:
> 
> >Linux:     joe
>             ae
>             elvis
> 
> At least I see these in Debian... :)
I have Debian, too, and I see several more than that. And
I've found all my favorites on RedHat boxen, as well.

-Andrew

>Linux:     joe
            ae
            elvis

At least I see these in Debian... :)

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Martin Atkins wrote in message <351...@news.vossnet.net>...

Also,

elvis-light

Learning Linux slowly... :)

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Andrew C. Dingman wrote in message
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>I have Debian, too, and I see several more than that. And
>I've found all my favorites on RedHat boxen, as well.