Re: Font-ejm2line
From llizard <cq5...@freent.toronto.on.ca>
· alt.ascii-art
· 5 Jul 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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My ISP is experiencing problems (again! and things were going so well for a while there) so I am reposting this from news. instead of usenet. In article <899...@mnementh.southern.co.nz>, Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> wrote: > > Lester5374 <les...@aol.com> wrote: > >I do not know what is making me get this error at the end, you probably left > >out some characters somewhere, but I fixed it up as best as I could with the > >help of the FIGLET Windows version error messages. First, I had to change the > >number of comment lines from 14 to 15, and then the rest of the errors was that > >the @ didn't all line up. As for the rest of it, I have no idea. Like I said, > >it's probably omitted characters. > > CHKFONT.EXE gave the following response: > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > EJM3LINE.FLF: ERROR- Filename does not end with '.flf'. > EJM3LINE.FLF: ERROR (fatal)- Unexpected end of file after line 319. > ********************************************************************** > EJM3LINE.FLF: Errors: 2, Warnings: 0 > EJM3LINE.FLF: charwidthlimit: 11, actual max line length: 7 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > So...I added one set of blanks at the end of the letters: > > @ > @ > @@ > > And...bingo...it came right: > > EJM3LINE.FLF: ERROR- Filename does not end with '.flf'. > *********************************************************************** > EJM3LINE.FLF: Errors: 1, Warnings: 0 > EJM3LINE.FLF: charwidthlimit: 11, actual max line length: 7 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Actually your original worked OK with Figlet even with the "fatal > error". Go figure. > > Here is the output from Figlet and you will see that it starts to go > wrong in Group 4 and Group 5 has an extra character after the Z and > then it all goes haywire. It wants checking out carefully: [snip] > |_|_ . . , \ ') _ /\ > | . , ` / ! (a' /--\ > [snip] > > And here are those required characters again: > > 2 ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / > 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 > 4 : ; < = > ? @ > 5 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ > 6 [ \ ] ^ _ ` > 7 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz > 8 { | } ~ > .. .. .. .. .. .. > 9 A O U a o u sz Thanks, Colin and Lester (? I never saw that particular post for some reason) for checking that for me. I was very confused at first that it was so out of alignment. But... ___ _/ | \_,^%--- |_____| <\ \ Oops!! It's because I left out the equal sign! --- == >/ [_____] __>,^ ejm | | //| | Here it is again. flf2a$ 3 2 11 0 14 ejm3line.flf font by llizard aka ejm <www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/> Figlet release 2.0 -- August 5, 1993 Date: 23 Jun 1998 Explanation of first line: flf2 - "magic number" for file identification a - should always be `a', for now $ - the "hardblank" -- prints as a blank, but can't be smushed 3 - height of a character 2 - height of a character, not including descenders 11 - max line length (excluding comment lines) + a fudge factor 0 - default smushmode for this font (like "-m 0" on command line) 15 - number of comment lines $$@ $$@ $$@@ |@ .@ @@ ''@ @ @@ ++@ ++@ @@ (|`@ ,|)@ @@ o/@ /o@ @@ ( @ (_X@ @@ '@ @ @@ /@ \@ @@ \@ /@ @@ x@ @ @@ _|_@ | @ @@ @ ,@ @@ @ _@ @@ @ .@ @@ /@ / @ @@ /\@ \/@ @@ |@ |@ @@ ')@ /_@ @@ ')@ ,)@ @@ |_|_@ | @ @@ [ @ ,)@ @@ / @ (_)@ @@ -/@ / @ @@ o @ (_)@ @@ (_)@ / @ @@ .@ .@ @@ .@ ,@ @@ ,@ `@ @@ _@ -@ @@ \@ /@ @@ ')@ ! @ @@ _ @ (a'@ @@ /\ @ /--\@ @@ |)@ |)@ @@ /`@ \,@ @@ |\@ |/@ @@ [@ [@ @@ [@ |@ @@ /`@ \]@ @@ |_|@ | |@ @@ |@ |@ @@ |@ ,|@ @@ |/@ |\@ @@ | @ |_@ @@ |\/|@ | |@ @@ |\ |@ | \|@ @@ /\@ \/@ @@ |)@ | @ @@ /\@ \X@ @@ |)@ |\@ @@ (`@ ,)@ @@ -|-@ | @ @@ | |@ |_|@ @@ \ /@ \/ @ @@ \ /@ \^/ @ @@ \/@ /\@ @@ \ /@ | @ @@ -/@ /_@ @@ |`@ |_@ @@ \ @ \@ @@ `|@ _|@ @@ /\@ @ @@ @ __@ @@ \@ @ @@ @ (|@ @@ | @ |)@ @@ @ (@ @@ |@ (|@ @@ @ ('@ @@ +`@ | @ @@ @ (|@ ,|@@ | @ |)@ @@ .@ |@ @@ .@ |@ |@@ |,@ |\@ @@ |@ |@ @@ @ |))@ @@ @ |)@ @@ @ ()@ @@ @ |)@ | @@ @ (|@ |@@ @ |`@ @@ _@ >@ @@ +@ |@ @@ @ ||@ @@ @ \/@ @@ @ \^/@ @@ @ ><@ @@ @ \/@ / @@ _@ <@ @@ (@ (@ @@ |@ |@ @@ )@ )@ @@ ^v@ @ @@ '^'@ /-\@ @@ '^'@ \_/@ @@ |"|@ |_|@ @@ ..@ (|@ @@ ..@ ()@ @@ ..@ ||@ @@ |) @ |_)@ @@ I hope I haven't left anything out... or added anything that shouldn't be there.. NOTE: If you are e-mailing me and hit the reply button, add an "e" to "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers. -- llizard aka ejm cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca ha ,^ http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/ ha ---%^^^^^^^^^^ ASCII-ar+, ASCII and gif anima+ions ha / " "
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,27917338f6b0d312 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: llizard <cq5...@freent.toronto.on.ca> Subject: Re: Font-ejm2line Date: 1998/07/05 Message-ID: <35A...@freent.toronto.on.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 368730870 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <359...@freent.toronto.on.ca> <199...@ladder03.news.aol.com> <899...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <899...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: 5 Jul 1998 22:55:19 GMT, ts6-27t-28.idirect.com Organization: via Internetdirect, Canada; zone 5b (or is it 6A?) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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