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ASCII-FONT
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Lets you to make texts out of letters made of characters.
These character letters are in file font.asc, which is read
at startup.
After loading an font.asc, program asks for character spacing
(how many spaces are left between letters).
Then you just write the text you want and result is shown on
screen. Results (and _only_ results) can be redirected also
to a file, with a shell or any other program capable of this.
There are two example fonts with this program (they take nearly
as much time as the program itself), I hope you'll like them.
Font file sructure:
File has to start with word 'Font:'. You should put on first line
some info, because it's shown when font is loading. Second line
contains a number of rows _every_ letter takes up (all letters
must occupy this number of rows). Third row contains all characters,
that have been converted to ascii in same order as they are later
in font file. Character definition ends with space ' '. Letter
definitions start from fourth row and they are all alike:
First row announces the width to be used by font (in cursive
style less than the actual size of the letter). Next rows define
the letter.
I will gladly accept additional fonts and they will be added to the
next distributions. You might for example try doing some fonts
with my Ansidraw. 20x20 ansifont would be nice...
Draw a rough picture of a letter with brush in a paintprogram,
convert pic to a ansitext, load it up to ansidraw for fine-
tuning, add width info, save, do all other letters, concatenate
to a single file, add rest of the info, save and voila...
The Most Impressive (PC-ansi) Ascii Font Ever :-)
Btw. You can also use invert on/off ESC codes, or any other
two character code, which doesn't move cursor (colors etc.).
PS. My studing has suffered to some extent by my programming, so every
compensation (money, postcards etc. :) is wellcome.
Eero Tamminen E-mail: t150315@cc.tut.fi
Sahantie 2
23600 Kalanti
FINLAND