figlet is a program that creates large characters out of ordinary screen characters _ _ _ _ _ _ | (_) | _____ | |_| |__ (_)___ | | | |/ / _ \ | __| '_ \| / __| | | | < __/ | |_| | | | \__ \_ |_|_|_|\_\___| \__|_| |_|_|___(_)
Copies of some of the additional fonts available at the ftp site have been included locally here. They live in pub/figlet/fonts/{contributed,international,ours}. Some of the ftp util utilities directory contents are also included locally in util:
bigfig.tar Makes extra-big chars
fsfiglet Multi-font perl script
zfiglet Uses compressed fonts
compressed-font-figlet Info on where to get a version of figlet
hacked to use compressed fonts directly.
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figlet is a program that creates large characters out of ordinary
screen characters
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| | | < __/ | |_| | | | \__ \_
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(This is meant to be viewed in a monospaced font.) figlet can create
characters in many different styles and can kern and "smush" these
characters together in various ways. figlet output is generally
reminiscent of the sort of "signatures" many people like to put at the
end of e-mail and UseNet messages.
If you like figlet (hey, even if you hate figlet), please send an
e-mail message to <figlet@uiuc.edu>.
Using figlet
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(Note: figlet needs a good thorough tutorial. Currently I don't have
the time to write one, but if anyone wants to do so, go right ahead.
I'd be glad to help out a little. Write us at <figlet@uiuc.edu> if
you're interested. -GGC-)
At the shell prompt, type "figlet". Then type, say, "Hello, world!"
and press return. "Hello, world!" in nice, big, designer characters
should appear on your screen. If you chose standard.flf to be the
default font, you should see
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| | | | ___| | | ___ __ _____ _ __| | __| | |
| |_| |/ _ \ | |/ _ \ \ \ /\ / / _ \| '__| |/ _` | |
| _ | __/ | | (_) | \ V V / (_) | | | | (_| |_|
|_| |_|\___|_|_|\___( ) \_/\_/ \___/|_| |_|\__,_(_)
|/
Then type something else, or type an EOF (typically control-D) to quit
figlet.
Now you can send the output of figlet to a file (e.g., "figlet > file")
and e-mail it to your friends (who will probably say, "Wow! It must
have taken you hours to put that together!")
To use other fonts, use the "-f" command line option. For example, if
you had said "figlet -f smslant" above, you would have seen
__ __ ____ __ ____
/ // /__ / / /__ _ _____ ____/ /__/ / /
/ _ / -_) / / _ \_ | |/|/ / _ \/ __/ / _ /_/
/_//_/\__/_/_/\___( ) |__,__/\___/_/ /_/\_,_(_)
|/
Here are some other useful command line options:
-c center -- centers the output of figlet.
-m0 (that's a zero) tells figlet to kern characters without smushing
them together.
-t terminal -- figlet asks your terminal how wide it is, and uses
this to determine when to break lines. Normally, figlet assumes
80 columns so that people with wide terminals won't annoy the
people they e-mail figlet output to.
-p paragraph mode -- eliminates some spurious line breaks when piping
a multi-line file through figlet.
-v version -- prints information about your copy of figlet.
For in-depth explanations of these and other options, see the man page.
Other Stuff
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figlet is available for operating systems other than Unix. E-mail us
for more information.
Although you don't have to design your own fonts to use figlet, we'd
certainly like it if lots of people did make up new figlet fonts. If
you feel like giving it a try, see the "FONT FILE FORMAT" section of
the man page. If you do design a font, please let us know!
See "Other Things to Try" in the EXAMPLES section of the man page
for... well... other things to try.
Authors
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figlet was written mostly by Glenn Chappell <ggc@uiuc.edu>. The author
not being an e-mail fanatic, most correspondence (bug reports, rave
reviews, etc.) should be directed to his secretary (who is definitely
an e-mail fanatic), Ian Chai <spectre@uiuc.edu>.
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