X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,b5f9d1b581eb34ea X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-11 19:09:44 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: Peter Samuelson Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii Subject: Talk: Normand's Script Font Date: 11 Oct 1994 09:17:03 -0500 Organization: minimal Lines: 32 Sender: boba@wwa.com Approved: boba@wwa.com Message-ID: <37e6ov$4ft@sashimi.wwa.com> References: <374gb7$8tp@sashimi.wwa.com> <375d08$5rg@gagme.wwa.com> <37bu75$9fl@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sashimi.wwa.com Normand Veilleux speaks; he who has ears, let him hear! [Me] > >figletize it anyway, screw the special-letter adaptations. > > What!!! And desecrate the font! :-( You're right, that would never do. You put in a lot of work making those duplicates, I'm sure. > If someone is willing to figletize the font you should consider > adding the punctuation marks. Perhaps those of the Univers font > will do. The extra 26 lowercase letters could replace other > characters in the ASCII set like the ten digits for example. > Once everything is in place, it would be possible to write a > little C program that would take the text and substitute the > odd characters where the special set of lowercase letters is > needed and pass that string to FIGLET. > Would this work ? Is someone willing to take it from here ? Excellent idea, Normand. Yes, I think it would work ... 78 (=26*3) letters leaves 17 other characters plus a space, which would probably be enough (who needs a Figletized %, for example?). Sometime when ... wait! Wouldn't it be almost as easy just to write a specialized Figlet clone for just this one font? Well, I'll look into it sometime and let you all know if I get anything. Peter