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` `;%; picture by Susie Oviatt. |
Here are a few tips, that taken together, can make an instant |
ASCII artist out of anybody: |
o A quick way to make a pic is to photocopy a drawing onto plastic. |
Place the plastic over your monitor to act as a guide for placing |
characters. |
o Ease your work by making a file full of lines of spaces. Now copy |
that file. Open a copy and start working. You'll see that it's |
easier because you can now go where you want and replace the |
spaces with characters. You have eliminated endless space bar |
pressing. Remember to strip all trailing spaces when you're done. |
o Use a mouse to move more quickly from character to character and |
to delete bunches of characters and large numbers of lines. |
o To avoid variation in characters, weights, and shapes found between |
different fonts, use the following characters: |
/ ! ( ) ? = + - _ : ; , . |
o Use 'block editing' if you can. Some software allows for a square |
or rectangular chunk of text to be cut, copied and pasted. |
o It may be better to work on your own computer (if it has more |
appropriate hardware and-ar software), and then upload it to your |
host. |
Also, see Jorn's "asciitech" file, available at Jorn's FTP site |
and Scarecrow's FTP, Gopher, WWW sites. |
7 Are there any ASCII tools? |
Not many. The Emacs editor offers some help, if you know how to |
use it. There are a couple of bits of Emacs code in the Scarecrow's |
FTP site. EmacsMouseCode let's you draw with a mouse, and |
EmacsFigletCode let's you use Figlet within Emacs. |
Q-Edit and "vedit" are ASCII editors with block cut and paste. |
And TheDraw can do some ANSI tricks but is limited by RAM size. |
There are Unix and DOS scripts for flipping an ASCII pic (like |
"modasc" by Ric Hotchkiss). BBSdraw is available for the Amiga. So |
is CygnusEd, which allows column editing. And also the TPU editor |
for VAX. And then there's "mdraw.el" for GNU Emacs 19 under X, that |
lets you draw ASCII with a mouse. |
8 Where can I get ASCII tools? |
You can get TheDraw at: |
-> Host: oak.oakland.edu |
Path: pub/msdos/screen |
File: tdraw463.zip |
URL: ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/msdos/screen/tdraw463.zip |
You can get "mdraw.el" at: |
-> Host: ftp.cse.psu.edu |
Path: pub/flee |
File: mdraw.el |
URL: ftp://ftp.cse.psu.edu/pub/flee/mdraw.el |
You can get Q-Edit at: |
-> Host: oak.oakland.edu |
Path: /pub/msdos/qedit |
URL: ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/msdos/qedit |
You can get Emacs Code at: |
-> Host: ftp.wwa.com |
Address: 198.49.174.1 |
Path: pub/Scarecrow/Info |
URL: ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/Info |
9 Where can I find ASCII art? |
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