Variable Font ASCII ART ????

Has anybody done any? Examples? What fonts?

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:32:34 GMT, ro...@itsa.uscf.edu wrote:

>Has anybody done any? Examples? What fonts?

http://www.backwash.com/content.php?jouid=2248 

I found a link that was interesting. They used different fonts to make
a picture. You have to put it in an image file to be easily viewable.
Take a look and see it this is what you were thinking of. 

Its the link "Reinventing ASCII Art".

Merry Christmas to us all. :)
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 08:47:25 GMT, Laura T. <she...@lycos.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:32:34 GMT, ro...@itsa.uscf.edu wrote:
>
>>Has anybody done any? Examples? What fonts?
>
>http://www.backwash.com/content.php?jouid=2248 
>
>I found a link that was interesting. They used different fonts to make
>a picture. You have to put it in an image file to be easily viewable.
>Take a look and see it this is what you were thinking of. 
>
>Its the link "Reinventing ASCII Art".

Interesting, but not quite what I was thinking. The pics shown could be
just as easily painted.

Specifically, I was thinking of traditional ASCII art. But, instead of
working in courier, have you tried to do a picture using Times-Roman? Or
some other font? If posted, you would have to tell us what font to set
our newsreaders to.

Years ago, I took a printing course - at that time Helvetica was
popular. Approximate width counts were something like: 1/2 for i and j;
1.5 for caps or m; 2 for M; etc.

On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 05:32:01 GMT, ray...@number.net wrote:

>On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 08:47:25 GMT, Laura T. <she...@lycos.com> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:32:34 GMT, ro...@itsa.uscf.edu wrote:
>>
>>>Has anybody done any? Examples? What fonts?
>>
>>http://www.backwash.com/content.php?jouid=2248 
>>
>>I found a link that was interesting. They used different fonts to make
>>a picture. You have to put it in an image file to be easily viewable.
>>Take a look and see it this is what you were thinking of. 
>>
>>Its the link "Reinventing ASCII Art".
>
>Interesting, but not quite what I was thinking. The pics shown could be
>just as easily painted.
>
>Specifically, I was thinking of traditional ASCII art. But, instead of
>working in courier, have you tried to do a picture using Times-Roman? Or
>some other font? If posted, you would have to tell us what font to set
>our newsreaders to.
>
>Years ago, I took a printing course - at that time Helvetica was
>popular. Approximate width counts were something like: 1/2 for i and j;
>1.5 for caps or m; 2 for M; etc.

I always work in FixedSys. I read the newsgroups and email in FixedSys
too. Now and then the odd ASCII picture looks awful when I see it in
Courier instead. I have an angel thats quite nice but I think she
looks terrible when I see her in Courier somewhere. 

Bug uses Lucinda font. But so far everything looks fine in FixedSys
too. I don't change fonts to see his ASCII. 

Laura

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On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 ray...@number.net wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 08:47:25 GMT, Laura T. <she...@lycos.com> wrote:
[...]
> >http://www.backwash.com/content.php?jouid=2248 
> >
> >I found a link that was interesting. They used different fonts to make
> >a picture. You have to put it in an image file to be easily viewable.
> >Take a look and see it this is what you were thinking of. 
> >
> >Its the link "Reinventing ASCII Art".

Not really similar to Ascii Art. More like painting with predefined
symbols -  or like a collage.

> 
> Interesting, but not quite what I was thinking. The pics shown could be
> just as easily painted.
> 
> Specifically, I was thinking of traditional ASCII art. But, instead of
> working in courier, have you tried to do a picture using Times-Roman? Or
> some other font? If posted, you would have to tell us what font to set
> our newsreaders to.

To my knowledge only the AOL based macros are that kind of thing. They
use Arial I believe. Of course that's the dark side of ASCII, so I
don't go there and cannot recommend good links. ;)

Try the Macrohouse: http:// neptune.spaceports.com/~machouse/main.html
or the macrolist: http://www.macrolist.com/

:)
Andreas

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