X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,88cd9d063c631a48 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-28 16:08:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.162.153.118!news.tele.dk!not-for-mail From: "CeeJay" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art References: <3c545ba0$0$14050$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <3C55D1DB.66E222D9@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Subject: Re: JavE mentioned in German computer magazine Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 01:09:09 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Lines: 91 Message-ID: <3c55e811$0$254$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> Organization: TDC Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.243.165.226 X-Trace: 1012262930 dread04.news.tele.dk 254 62.243.165.226 X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:14218 > > While we are on the subject of jave .. the link from c't made me see that almost > > all the places where Markus have inserted ascii-art into his HTML something have > > gone wrong and some lines have shifted. > > What browser/system did you use? It all worked fine with the browsers on > Windows, Solaris and Linux I have tested it with. IE 6 - WinXP. I just tested Mozilla 0.9.7 and it looks fine. Must be some sort of IE bug then. Aha .. I think I have found the bug .. IE centers the text inside the PRE tags. 
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becomes : _\/_ /\ > > 2) Why are the keyboard shortcuts soo weird ? > > I want CTRL + C , CTRL + V , CTRL + X and CTRL + A to work as they do normally > > do > > I mean CTRL + Numpad 3 ?? .. what is up with that .. the combo doesn't even work > > That's the problem with JRE1.4: The keyboard shortcuts are broken there. > It must be the fault of the JRE. This is why I still recommend 1.3. I > hope they will fix it all when releasing the final version (1.4 is only > a "release candidate" - means somewhat like "it still is beta, but we > would like to release it"). I urge you to let SUN know. > > Through that work I have realised that it would be VERY helpful if you could > > edit fonts already created - both by editing the kerning , smushing .. etc .. > > options and also by working it in reverse having it print out all the chars into > > the document so you could make refinements to the font , and then save it again > > as a .flf > > I will add that to my list (I know: "it must be very long by now". But > in fact it is shorter than the list of implemented features :) Meanwhile I guess I will have to edit the .flf by hand now .. unless you release a new version fast. > > Also the figlet tools could use some option to override smushing , kerning and > > fitting rules as the FIGlet font format specification. explains that FIGlet can > > do this (or is it FIGwin ?) > > My very first Figlet program had that option - but I removed it, for it > was of little or no use. Just some more checkboxes and buttons to make > people weird... It is of use when you create the figlet font .. a preview of your settings would really help there. The normal figlet dialog could just get an "advanced" dialog window or something. > > It would also be great if it could print vertically and override the direction > > of printing. > > The first version had that option, too. It did not make much sense. The > only font it works well with is standard.flf - and that one is available > as seperate font mirror.flf. You mean overriding the direction , not vertical printing right ? > Good night, > Markus Good night CeeJay