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From: Tony Nugent <T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii
Subject: Talk: *INSTANT* new figlet fonts!;Line: Examples
Date: 16 Oct 1994 01:58:52 -0500
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Ok, I'm really following up on what I've posted before, but I've
been playing around with figlet with some *amazing* results!

> Subject: Talk: Reduce the no. of flf files but INCREASE the no. of fonts!

[...]

> *****************************************************************
> *                                                               *
> * There is an almost UNLIMITED number of fonts possible - and I *
> * say this while advocating a REDUCTION in the number of flf    *
> * files that are now available!!!!                              *
> *                                                               *
> *****************************************************************

[...]

> Anthony Thysson has suggested (in the figlet email list) that
> many fonts are very similar, with most differences being a
> simple traslation of one character (or pattern of characters)
> with another.

> For example, it's possible to get an exact reproduction of one
> font by piping the output of a similar font though the unix tr
> comand.  (Check "man tr" if you don't know of this command).
> (And BTW, there IS a dos version of tr available at Simtel -
> oak.oakland.edu :: /SimTel/msdos/textutil/tr112.zip).

[...]

Ok, this is with the default font, standard.flf...

echo Tony | figlet
 _____
|_   _|__  _ __  _   _
  | |/ _ \| '_ \| | | |
  | | (_) | | | | |_| |
  |_|\___/|_| |_|\__, |
                 |___/

Now have a look at this...

echo Tony | figlet | tr ' ' ':'
:_____:::::::::::::::::
|_:::_|__::_:__::_:::_:
::|:|/:_:\|:'_:\|:|:|:|
::|:|:(_):|:|:|:|:|_|:|
::|_|\___/|_|:|_|\__,:|
:::::::::::::::::|___/:

and this...

echo Tony | figlet | tr '|' '$'
 _____
$_   _$__  _ __  _   _
  $ $/ _ \$ '_ \$ $ $ $
  $ $ (_) $ $ $ $ $_$ $
  $_$\___/$_$ $_$\__, $
                 $___/

echo Tony | figlet | tr '|' '\!'
 _____
!_   _!__  _ __  _   _
  ! !/ _ \! '_ \! ! ! !
  ! ! (_) ! ! ! ! !_! !
  !_!\___/!_! !_!\__, !
                 !___/

Well, these last two are not all that exciting, but you get the
general idea.  (Note that you must use "\" to escape certain
characters for tr).

Now for something really neat... allligator.flf is a really nice
font, and the variations on this are great!
  ::::::::::: ::::::::  ::::    ::: :::   :::
     :+:    :+:    :+: :+:+:   :+: :+:   :+:
    +:+    +:+    +:+ :+:+:+  +:+  +:+ +:+
   +#+    +#+    +:+ +#+ +:+ +#+   +#++:
  +#+    +#+    +#+ +#+  +#+#+#    +#+
 #+#    #+#    #+# #+#   #+#+#    #+#
###     ########  ###    ####    ###

That was with no tr, but...

echo Tony | figlet -f alligator | tr ':\#' '\#|'
  ########### ########  ####    ### ###   ### 
     #+#    #+#    #+# #+#+#   #+# #+#   #+#  
    +#+    +#+    +#+ #+#+#+  +#+  +#+ +#+    
   +|+    +|+    +#+ +|+ +#+ +|+   +|++#      
  +|+    +|+    +|+ +|+  +|+|+|    +|+        
 |+|    |+|    |+| |+|   |+|+|    |+|         
|||     ||||||||  |||    ||||    |||          

Voila!  Instant totally new font!  :-)

echo Tony | figlet -f alligator | tr ':+\#' '|\+\#|'
  ||||||||||| ||||||||  ||||    ||| |||   ||| 
     |!|    |!|    |!| |!|!|   |!| |!|   |!|  
    !|!    !|!    !|! |!|!|!  !|!  !|! !|!    
   !:!    !:!    !|! !:! !|! !:!   !:!!|      
  !:!    !:!    !:! !:!  !:!:!:    !:!        
 :!:    :!:    :!: :!:   :!:!:    :!:         
:::     ::::::::  :::    ::::    :::          

... and so on.  The possibilities are endless!  Try it!

Cheers
Tony
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