Re: Font-ejm2line
From Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz>
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· 7 Jul 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Lester5374 <les...@aol.com> wrote: >>Thanks for checking the font, Colin and Lester. >> >> ___ ???/\ >> _/ |===%^, But what have you done to my characters??? >> |_____| \/> >> --- == > >> [_____] __>,^ >>ejm | | //| | >> >>Please, please, I don't care for those changes at all. Call me a purist, >>but here are my characters as I would like them to look: >Just for the record, I didn't change any of the characters. I just tried to get >the FLF file you posted to work properly. Well llizard's post about this has not reached me here because I am also having problems with a flakey newsfeed right now. :-( Whatever...I'm afraid chkfont.exe gave the following errors with llizard's repost of her font: ********************************************************************** EJM3LINE.FLF: Too many errors. EJM3LINE.FLF: Errors: 21, Warnings: 3 EJM3LINE.FLF: charwidthlimit: 11, actual max line length: 5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The main problem was the alignment of the figlet control line limiters some of which were which were inserted as... @ @ @ instead of the correct @ @@ @@ Also the header had a discrepancy on the number of comment lines: > flf2a$ 3 2 11 0 14 <== Wrong, should have been 15 here. > 15 - number of comment lines So here is the output from the code-corrected version of what llizard posted: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ') | '' ++ (|` o/ ( ' / \ x _|_ / /_ . ++ ,|) /o (_X \ / | , _ . / ') /\ | ') ') |_|_ [ / -/ o (_) ,) \/ | /_ ,) | ,) (_) / (_) / |_|_ . . , _ \ ') _ | . , ` - / ! (a' [ ,) /\ |)/`|\[[/`|_|| ||/| |\/||\ |/\|)/\|)(`-|-| |\ /\ /\/\ /-/ /--\|)\,|/[|\]| ||,||\|_| || \|\/| \X|\,) | |_| \/ \^/ /\ | /_ / |` \ `| /\ \ (_) |_ \ _| __ -/ | | +` | ..|,| _+ _ / (||)((|('|(||)|||\||))|)()|)(||`>|||\/\^/><\/< ,| | | | / o ( | ) ^v (_) ( | ) (_) __ / >< %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Any changed characters llizard has been seeing in postings are changes I have made. Why did I make those changes? Well, I don't think the _ for hyphen in Group 2 works because it is positioned too low in hyphenated words and too low for a minus sign. \ The identical character / is used for both ) and > , / In Group 4 the character for < is ` instead of \ which seems strange but if it was the latter then it would be identical to the character for ( _ The equals sign - does not look too good in an arrow ----> Below are illustrations of the things mentioned above: Hyphen too low: / . _+ \ \ |)|(|_>|\/ / | ,| / / |)|/` (`-|-\ / \ \ | |\]_,) | | / , / Group 4 character for < is ` instead of \ ,, `` . _+ \\ |)|(|_>|\/ // | ,| / _ Equals sign - not so good in an arrow ----> etc. ____\ ----/ Whatever...the figletised version of ejm3line.flf using exactly the characters listed by llizard but with the coding errors corrected to satisfy CHKFONT is given below: ------------ ejm3line.flf --------------------------------------- flf2a$ 3 2 11 0 15 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@ @ @@ '^'@ /-\@ @@ '^'@ \_/@ @@ |"|@ |_|@ @@ ..@ (|@ @@ ..@ ()@ @@ ..@ ||@ @@ |) @ |_)@ @@ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Phew!!! Bye,
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,27917338f6b0d312 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> Subject: Re: Font-ejm2line Date: 1998/07/07 Message-ID: <899...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> X-Deja-AN: 369125821 References: <35A...@freent.toronto.on.ca> <199...@ladder01.news.aol.com> Organization: Southern InterNet Services User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (SunOS/5.4 (sun4m)) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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