Re: The Best way to make ASCII Art.

Tony Relyea wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:30:49 -0800, Randy Gardner wrote:
> 
> >hassel of learning ASCII codes and trying to use a text editor?
> 
WTF's an ASCII code?
> 
> American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
> 
> After all, this is alt.ascii.art.  An example code is ASCII code 1 (
) or
> ASCII code 2 ().
I know from experience that in DOS this is a smile face and an inversc smile face
but in my news reader it just looks like a little box.The little box denotes that
it is a control code or an extended ascii that this font doesnt support a symbol for.
To you it looks like a smily but for most people it does NOT.As a matter of
fact we are revising the faq for this group to better explain this issue so people
wont post stuff that only a few will understand and will make some readers crash.
The problem in the faq was that we were calling these codes "ansi" for lack of a 
better word but this is also confusing.RaD Man is working on a nice explanation
but in the mean time,I suggest you read the faq allready at hand.

>  One way to do it in many text editors is to hit ALT-code
> (entered from the number pad).  Unfortunately, many people do not have access
> to a list of ASCII codes (there are, after all, 256).  Even I have a hard
> time remembering what they are.  That is why I created ASCIIART.  Using
> ASCIIART you can use the mouse and an ASCII pallette to "paint" your text
> pictures.
You dont need to remember any codes.The only ones that are "cool" here are the ones
that you can see on your keyboard.
~!@#$%^&*()_+|
`1234567890-=\
QWERTYUIOP{}
qwertyuiop[]
ASDFGHJKL:"
asdfghjkl;'
ZXCVBNM<>?
zxcvbnm,./

There i just typed,in about 30 secs,all the charecters that are standard to ascii art
and they all coult be found on the normal keys of my 101 key keyboard.And i did NOT
need to press alt and 33 on the numberpad to get "!"

>         A couple of years ago, I was working on a game called Quest ][
> (http://www.tidalwave.net/~Shawg/ruw/games.html#quest2).  I needed to design
> a dozen or so city maps.  I elected to do it in text mode for various
> reasons.  After making the initial maps using MS-DOS Editor, I decided to
> make a program that would aid in the design of future maps.  The original
> program was rather small and simple.  I continued to add to it, and then
> redesigned it and called it ASCIIART.
Im shure your maps looked good in DOS's EDIT or my favorite dos editor LIST,
but thats the only place it will look right.
>         The bottom line is this, don't knock it until you try it.  Just
> because you like using a text editor and using the cryptic code structure
> doesn't mean that someone else does.  What my program does is allow more
> people to be able to create good ASCII art.  If you don't want to use it then
> don't.  But don't assume that everyone else is obsessed with doing things the
> hard way.
> 
> Tony.
> http://www.tidalwave.net/~Shawg/ruw/
I wrote a ascii-paint prog my self.I simply wanted a cut and paste feature
that would allow me to cut and paste like the way paint progs do,insteda of the way
text editors normaly do.And the ability to drag a charecter around like a brush
and even let me forget about the insert and end of doc and line and draw carefree.
I even went on to make it in to a animation package that i made all my animations
with.Its lame but if ya know how to work it it can be a usefull tool.
   BUT,I still mainly use notepad(actually a notepad clone,called "newpad" that will
let me use my favorite ascii-art font,"topaz-new" instead of "FIXDSYS") for doing
ascii-art.I think in time you will find it is just easyier that way.
  I think it would be nice if you asked the user b4 they start drawing if what they are
drawing will ever be posted to the net and if so,restrict them to only using the
standard ascii-art "ascii-codes" rather then let them run amok.They will get flamed
for posting thier art if you dont and it wont look right to MOST others who see it.
There are places for thier non ascii art but not here.

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