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From: boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison)
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Subject: Talk: *INSTANT* new figlet fonts!; Line: Examples
Date: 16 Oct 1994 17:42:48 -0500
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Tony Nugent  <T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au> wrote:
>
[snip]
>
>> 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
> _____
>|_   _|__  _ __  _   _
>  | |/ _ \| '_ \| | | |
>  | | (_) | | | | |_| |
>  |_|\___/|_| |_|\__, |
>                 |___/
>
[snip]
>
>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).

   What are the characters that must be escaped?

>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!  :-)
>
[snip]
>
>... and so on.  The possibilities are endless!  Try it!


   OK, here's the standard output of the alligator.flf font:
 
  ::::::::::: :::::::::: :::::::: :::::::::::
     :+:     :+:       :+:    :+:    :+:
    +:+     +:+       +:+           +:+
   +#+     +#++:++#  +#++:++#++    +#+
  +#+     +#+              +#+    +#+
 #+#     #+#       #+#    #+#    #+#
###     ########## ########     ###
 
   You can flip it by typing:
 
echo Test | figlet -f alligator | tr ':+#' '#+:'
 
   Which gives us:
 
 
  ########### ########## ######## ###########
     #+#     #+#       #+#    #+#    #+#
    +#+     +#+       +#+           +#+
   +:+     +:++#++:  +:++#++:++    +:+
  +:+     +:+              +:+    +:+
 :+:     :+:       :+:    :+:    :+:
:::     :::::::::: ::::::::     :::
 
 
   And of course, you can send the output to a file, like:
 
echo Test | figlet -f alligator | tr ':+#' '#+:' > output.file

   Let's see some examples of modified Figlet fonts!

--
 ######  ###=#  =#==#=  =+=++++  ++++++  ++=+= =++#=+#   ==#=##  #=#  ###  ###
####### ###=#= #=#====+ =+=++=++ ++++++ ++=++= +=+==#+= #=#==### =##  ###  ###
###     ###    =#=  =#= #==  =++ +++    ++=    =+=  =#= ==#  =## #=#  ###  ###
######  ###    #=#==#== =+==+++  +++++  ++=    +===+=#  #=#  #=# =#=  ###  ###
 ###### ###    ##==##== ==++++   +++++  ++=    =+=+=#   ==#  ##= #=#  ###  ###
    ### ###    #==  =#= +=+ =++  +++    +++    +=+ =#=  =##  #=# =##  ###  ###
####### ####=# =#=  #== =+=  +++ ++++++ ++=+=+ =+=  +=# ==##=### #=###########
######   ###== #=#  =#= =++  =++ ++++++  ++=+= ++=  =+=  #==##=   =#=########