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written in). HTML allows colours and (using JavaScript) animations
in ASCII art, but few newsreaders support it, and those which
don't will show a whole lot of garbage text with your picture
hidden inside it.

So if you have one of these HTML-sending programs, PLEASE select
the option which tells it to send messages as plain text only. If
you have a picture which uses HTML for a particular feature (such
as colours or animation), put it on a Web page, and post the URL
of the page to alt.ascii-art, rather than posting the whole
picture.

□ Is it under 72 characters wide? Most news readers can only show
lines which are under either 72, 76, or 80 characters wide, so if
your picture is wider than 72 characters it may get wrapped (see
Question 4). Also remove any unnecessary space characters from the
end of each line of the picture, to prevent lines from being too
long (and getting wrapped) without your realizing.


□ Have you used any control codes? Inserting control codes (ASCII
characters 0 to 31) in a picture can sometimes achieve interesting
effects on your computer screen or news reader, such as reversing
text, changing its colour, and so on. DO NOT post any of these
pictures to alt.ascii-art, for two reasons:
1. the effects that the control codes have on your news reader
are almost certainly going to be different from those on the
thousands of other news readers that other people use
2. on some news readers, control codes can cause messed up
displays, messages not appearing, or (in some cases) the news
reader crashing.
□ If your first line starts with one or more spaces, stick a dummy
line (such as -- or .) above it, to prevent the spaces from being
ignored by your news program (this only applies to some news
programs, and only to the first line of the message).

If you're not sure about whether your message will turn out ok, post
it to a test newsgroup (such as news:alt.test or news:misc.test) first
and make sure (using a different newsreader, if you can) that you can
read it ok.

[See Question 10 for advice on posting someone else's ASCII art.]


7. Can I post to ask for some text drawn in ASCII?

Probably not, unless we're REALLY bored. The reason for this is that
there is a program called Figlet which does that sort of thing
automatically -- you type in `Jane Smith', and you get back

___ __,
( / ( o _/_ /
/ __, _ _ `. _ _ , / /_
_/_(_/(_/ /_(/_ (___)/ / /_(_(__/ /_
//
(/

in this and a whole lot of other fonts (lettering styles). The ASCII
text-art produced by Figlet can be quite stunning, so it's best to try
it first before asking for help from the newsgroup.

The Figlet home page is at http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/
figlet.html. This site links to the FTP site ftp://ftp.internexus.net/
pub/figlet where you can download versions of the program for many
different platforms.

If you have a Web browser which has form support (most browsers do),
you can run Figlet on the Internet by going to one of the following
sites and choosing your text and options on the Web page. Different
sites offer different options (eg multiple fonts at once,
justification, line length etc). Some of these sites also provide an
e-mail Figlet service for people with browsers which don't support
forms.

□ http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/
□ http://wwwcn.cern.ch/~rigaut/FigletJava.html
□ http://www.schnoggo.com/figlet.html
□ http://www.inf.utfsm.cl/cgi-bin/figlet/
□ http://saigon.mit.edu/dinhyen/figlet/figlet.html
□ http://www.mediacube.de/cgi-bin/moniteurs/figlet/
□ http://www.sconnect.net/figlet/index.cgi
□ http://boulder.Colorado.EDU/~kai/figlet.html
□ http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/cgi-bin/bwagner/FIGLET/figlet.pl
□ http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~mcchau3/cgi-bin/express.html
□ http://www.webserve.com/gateways/figletgateway.pl

(Thanks to Shimrod and Veronica Karlsson for the original list.)

If Figlet doesn't produce the kind of results you want, THEN you can
post to the newsgroup with your request. Make sure that you include:

□ the fact that you have already tried Figlet, or don't have access
to it
(otherwise you will probably just get told to use it)
□ a description of the kind of lettering you want, along with any
other symbols or logos which you would like incorporated into it.



8. Can I post to ask for an ASCII art picture?

written in). HTML allows colours and (using JavaScript) animations

in ASCII art, but few newsreaders support it, and those which

don't will show a whole lot of garbage text with your picture

hidden inside it.

So if you have one of these HTML-sending programs, PLEASE select

the option which tells it to send messages as plain text only. If

you have a picture which uses HTML for a particular feature (such

as colours or animation), put it on a Web page, and post the URL

of the page to alt.ascii-art, rather than posting the whole

picture.

□ Is it under 72 characters wide? Most news readers can only show

lines which are under either 72, 76, or 80 characters wide, so if

your picture is wider than 72 characters it may get wrapped (see

Question 4). Also remove any unnecessary space characters from the

end of each line of the picture, to prevent lines from being too

long (and getting wrapped) without your realizing.

□ Have you used any control codes? Inserting control codes (ASCII

characters 0 to 31) in a picture can sometimes achieve interesting

effects on your computer screen or news reader, such as reversing

text, changing its colour, and so on. DO NOT post any of these

pictures to alt.ascii-art, for two reasons:

1. the effects that the control codes have on your news reader

are almost certainly going to be different from those on the

thousands of other news readers that other people use

2. on some news readers, control codes can cause messed up

displays, messages not appearing, or (in some cases) the news

reader crashing.

□ If your first line starts with one or more spaces, stick a dummy

line (such as -- or .) above it, to prevent the spaces from being

ignored by your news program (this only applies to some news

programs, and only to the first line of the message).

If you're not sure about whether your message will turn out ok, post

it to a test newsgroup (such as news:alt.test or news:misc.test) first

and make sure (using a different newsreader, if you can) that you can

read it ok.

[See Question 10 for advice on posting someone else's ASCII art.]

7. Can I post to ask for some text drawn in ASCII?

Probably not, unless we're REALLY bored. The reason for this is that

there is a program called Figlet which does that sort of thing

automatically -- you type in `Jane Smith', and you get back

___ __,

( / ( o _/_ /

/ __, _ _ `. _ _ , / /_

_/_(_/(_/ /_(/_ (___)/ / /_(_(__/ /_

//

(/

in this and a whole lot of other fonts (lettering styles). The ASCII

text-art produced by Figlet can be quite stunning, so it's best to try

it first before asking for help from the newsgroup.

The Figlet home page is at http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/

figlet.html. This site links to the FTP site ftp://ftp.internexus.net/

pub/figlet where you can download versions of the program for many

different platforms.

If you have a Web browser which has form support (most browsers do),

you can run Figlet on the Internet by going to one of the following

sites and choosing your text and options on the Web page. Different

sites offer different options (eg multiple fonts at once,

justification, line length etc). Some of these sites also provide an

e-mail Figlet service for people with browsers which don't support

forms.

□ http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/

□ http://wwwcn.cern.ch/~rigaut/FigletJava.html

□ http://www.schnoggo.com/figlet.html

□ http://www.inf.utfsm.cl/cgi-bin/figlet/

□ http://saigon.mit.edu/dinhyen/figlet/figlet.html

□ http://www.mediacube.de/cgi-bin/moniteurs/figlet/

□ http://www.sconnect.net/figlet/index.cgi

□ http://boulder.Colorado.EDU/~kai/figlet.html

□ http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/cgi-bin/bwagner/FIGLET/figlet.pl

□ http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~mcchau3/cgi-bin/express.html

□ http://www.webserve.com/gateways/figletgateway.pl

(Thanks to Shimrod and Veronica Karlsson for the original list.)

If Figlet doesn't produce the kind of results you want, THEN you can

post to the newsgroup with your request. Make sure that you include:

□ the fact that you have already tried Figlet, or don't have access

to it

(otherwise you will probably just get told to use it)

□ a description of the kind of lettering you want, along with any

other symbols or logos which you would like incorporated into it.

8. Can I post to ask for an ASCII art picture?