curious about coloring ascii

Hey all, 1st time poster here, and all i have is a question :-)
I was wondering HOW i could colorize ascii art.
I know there are raw color codes, but have no idea what exactly they are and
how to add them in.
I also checked and there are supposedly a few programs that will help you
colorize the art as well, but none of the ones that i checked out were good.
What I need is one that will save to a .txt file with the color codes in
there.  Found one that I could color with (ASCII Editor), but it wouldn't
save the colors.
Any help?

Thanks,
Jason

"Jason Weiss" <jas...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I was wondering HOW i could colorize ascii art.
>Any help?

Use HTML.

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sorry, when i said that i knew there were raw codes, i should have said that
that is what i WANT to use.
The opening screens of a MUD that I hang out on are what I want to color.
It's via telnet
"maraz" <mar...@raketti.net> wrote in message
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> "Jason Weiss" <jas...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I was wondering HOW i could colorize ascii art.
> >Any help?
>
> Use HTML.
>
> --
> maraz // mar...@raketti.net :: http://maraz.deviantart.com

"Jason Weiss" <jas...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>sorry, when i said that i knew there were raw codes, i should have said that
>that is what i WANT to use.
>The opening screens of a MUD that I hang out on are what I want to color.
>It's via telnet

Oh, use ANSI in that case. :)

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> >sorry, when i said that i knew there were raw codes, i should have said
that
> >that is what i WANT to use.
> >The opening screens of a MUD that I hang out on are what I want to color.
> >It's via telnet
>
> Oh, use ANSI in that case. :)

There were once drawing programs for ANSI.

Aciddraw or ansidraw or something like that .. I really can't remember

there was also The draw !

but it's a dos program

BoD

"CeeJay" <new...@ceejay.cjb.netREMOVE> wrote in message
news:3ceec1a5$0$97300$edf...@dspool01.news.tele.dk...
> > >sorry, when i said that i knew there were raw codes, i should have said
> that
> > >that is what i WANT to use.
> > >The opening screens of a MUD that I hang out on are what I want to
color.
> > >It's via telnet
> >
> > Oh, use ANSI in that case. :)
>
> There were once drawing programs for ANSI.
>
> Aciddraw or ansidraw or something like that .. I really can't remember
>
>

On Sat, 25 May 2002 00:51:02 +0200, "BoD" <spa...@BoDLand.com> wrote:

>there was also The draw !
>
>but it's a dos program
>
>BoD
>
>"CeeJay" <new...@ceejay.cjb.netREMOVE> wrote in message
>news:3ceec1a5$0$97300$edf...@dspool01.news.tele.dk...
>> > >sorry, when i said that i knew there were raw codes, i should have said
>> that
>> > >that is what i WANT to use.
>> > >The opening screens of a MUD that I hang out on are what I want to
>color.
>> > >It's via telnet
>> >
>> > Oh, use ANSI in that case. :)
>>
>> There were once drawing programs for ANSI.
>>
>> Aciddraw or ansidraw or something like that .. I really can't remember
>>
What about rich text (rtf). would it work? its crossplatforms fairly easy
with very little loss to my understanding.

obascii -- small winch

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lgbeard

LGB wrote:

>>> > >The opening screens of a MUD that I hang out on are what I want to
>>color.
>>> > >It's via telnet
>>> >
>>> > Oh, use ANSI in that case. :)
>>>
>>> There were once drawing programs for ANSI.
>>>
>>> Aciddraw or ansidraw or something like that .. I really can't remember
>>>
> What about rich text (rtf). would it work? its crossplatforms fairly easy
> with very little loss to my understanding.

No he needs to draw with ANSI, rtf isn't compatible. The thing is that when 
a client connects to the MUD it converts the ANSI codes into colour on the 
fly.

I picked up these websites recently. I'm not sure if it was here or in 
alt.mud.programming.

ANSI/VT100 codes
http://www.fh-jena.de/~gmueller/Kurs_halle/esc_vt100.html

Telnet Protocol
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/comms/telnet.html

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Thats a mushroom and no I didn't eat it :)

> obascii -- small winch
> 
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Richard :)

In article <OztH8.1135$R_4...@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>, 
jas...@hotmail.com says...
> Hey all, 1st time poster here, and all i have is a question :-)
> I was wondering HOW i could colorize ascii art.
> I know there are raw color codes, but have no idea what exactly they are and
> how to add them in.
> I also checked and there are supposedly a few programs that will help you
> colorize the art as well, but none of the ones that i checked out were good.
> What I need is one that will save to a .txt file with the color codes in
> there.  Found one that I could color with (ASCII Editor), but it wouldn't
> save the colors.
> Any help?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
> 
> 

Try BG_Ascii...

In article<OztH8.1135$R_4...@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>, Jason Weiss
<jas...@hotmail.com> writes:
>Hey all, 1st time poster here, and all i have is a question :-)
>I was wondering HOW i could colorize ascii art.

 The answer is, you can't.  Ascii art is made with PRINTABLE ASCII
 CHARACTERS, displayed in a mono-spaced, typewriter, font.  It has
 NO COLOUR CODES (sorry for shouting but it needs to be made clear).  


>I know there are raw color codes, but have no idea what exactly they are and
>how to add them in.
>I also checked and there are supposedly a few programs that will help you
>colorize the art as well, but none of the ones that i checked out were good.
>What I need is one that will save to a .txt file with the color codes in
>there.  Found one that I could color with (ASCII Editor), but it wouldn't
>save the colors.
>Any help?

 There is a wider alphabet called ANSI which has colour codes, but
 not everybody has it and anyway, it's not ascii.

 When you put ascii pictures into an HTML web-page, you can also
 use HTML commands to colorise them -- see examples on my website below.

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