X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,1e2fbba1007c8af2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-02 11:07:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!xemu.demon.co.uk!dave From: Dave Bird Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: curious about coloring ascii Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 01:52:41 +0100 Organization: Smelling--nose Dogs for the Anosmic Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: xemu.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: xemu.demon.co.uk:158.152.196.209 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1023041164 nnrp-01:7729 NO-IDENT xemu.demon.co.uk:158.152.196.209 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.00 U Lines: 30 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:17554 In article, Jason Weiss writes: >Hey all, 1st time poster here, and all i have is a question :-) >I was wondering HOW i could colorize ascii art. The answer is, you can't. Ascii art is made with PRINTABLE ASCII CHARACTERS, displayed in a mono-spaced, typewriter, font. It has NO COLOUR CODES (sorry for shouting but it needs to be made clear). >I know there are raw color codes, but have no idea what exactly they are and >how to add them in. >I also checked and there are supposedly a few programs that will help you >colorize the art as well, but none of the ones that i checked out were good. >What I need is one that will save to a .txt file with the color codes in >there. Found one that I could color with (ASCII Editor), but it wouldn't >save the colors. >Any help? There is a wider alphabet called ANSI which has colour codes, but not everybody has it and anyway, it's not ascii. When you put ascii pictures into an HTML web-page, you can also use HTML commands to colorise them -- see examples on my website below. -- (o_.' _0) (o< -! _o) {o_ _d) lunchtime at the Bill & Fish //\c{} /\\ //\ Y U <\\ //D /\\ _O) [fish saloon--all sorts of V__)_:::_\_U:::V_/_::::^:::::::V_)_\_V_(\):::::::::::::fish sold here] http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/art/penguins.html