X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,30607012ce2d9910 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-22 11:49:35 PST From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: The Tengwar Date: 22 Dec 2001 20:49:10 +0100 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 58 Message-ID: <6uk7vf9gsp.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: <6uvgf0nsnl.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Dec 2001 19:49:10 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 NNTP-Posting-Host: galapagos.ethz.ch X-Trace: 22 Dec 2001 20:49:31 +0100, galapagos.ethz.ch Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-ge.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:12632 drsquare writes: > On 21 Dec 2001 22:57:02 +0100, in alt.ascii-art, > (Neil Franklin ) wrote: > >drsquare writes: > > >What is "highlighted"? My terminal does not know such a thing. Do you > >mean double bright mode,? Or bold mode? Or underlined? Or inverse > >video mode? Or is that printed out with double strike mode? > > I assumed that most people would be viewing it in a program which normally > displays black on white, and the letters look best white on black, so > highlighting it reverses the colours, making it look right. Hint: with ASCII do not make assumptions about the viewers system. Some can be very surprising. Even some modern systems have light on dark (like mine, green on black). And some better modern systems when highlighting do not invert (how ugly), but rather underlay an different background color, leaving the foreground colour(s) unchanged (also like mine, black changes to dark green, but I have also seen white background becoming pastel yellow or light gray). I have also seen marked text color change to yellow (on black) or blue/green (on white). And no doubt there exist even more variants. So rather write "looks better in light on dark display". That is neutral of the viewers system type, preferences and highlighting display method. > > `,---. `,---. `,---.---. > > | | | | | | | > > | -' | -' | -' -' > > | > > | > > > > t r n (Tauran = forest walker) Elf of Mirkwood > > (my middle earth roleplaying character) > > Is that in some sort of mud? Roleplaying games (RPGs) predate MUD by quite a bit. Actually they are the originals that MUDs were developed from. They are the pre-computer form, where a group sits around an table, with paper forms (character sheets) that describe the characters abilities and use many-sided dice for random numbers to see if something worked and how well it did. For some example RPG systems see: http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/lite/ http://www.acc.umu.se/~corps/fudge/fudge.html most of the other links I have are in German -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng HTL/BSc, Sysadmin, Archer, Roleplayer - Intellectual Property is Intellectual Robbery