Infobox software name FIGlet logo screenshot caption author Glenn Chappell , Ian Chai developer released 1991 as newban 1993 figlet 2.0 ref name history cite web url http www.figlet.org figlet history.html title Why does FIGlet exist? a history of FIGlet year 1995 first Glen last Chappell accessdate ... FIGLet home page accessdate 2011 01 29 ref latest release date January 2011 latest preview version ... url http www.figlet.org figlet history.html title Why does FIGlet exist? a history of FIGlet accessdate 2011 01 15 ref website http www.figlet.org FIGlet is a computer program that generates text banner ... of smaller ASCII characters see ASCII art . Being free software , FIGlet is commonly included as part ... been ported to other platforms as well. The official FIGlet FTP site includes precompiled ports for the Acorn ... in Perl http search.cpan.org perldoc?Text FIGlet Text FIGlet . ref name ftp cite web url ftp ftp.figlet.org pub figlet program title Official FIGlet FTP site accessdate 2008 04 25 ref There are third party reimplementations of FIGLet in Java programming language Java ref cite web url http www.rigaut.com benoit CERN FigletJava title Figlet Java first Beno t last Rigaut year 1996 accessdate ... and PHP . ref cite web url http www.phpclasses.org phpfiglet title PHP Figlet first Lucas last Baltes ... title Zend Framework Zend Text Figlet Component ref FIGlet was featured as a Debian Package of the Day in 2007. ref name debaday cite web url http debaday.debian.net 2007 03 25 figlet a totally useless therefore essential tool author Tincho date 2007 03 25 title FIGLET a totally useless, therefore essential tool accessdate 2008 04 20 ref Behavior FIGlet can read from standard input or accept ... of output generated by FIGlet is shown below. pre V V . , , pre The following code figlet ct ... font file. FIGlet based ASCII typefaces Eric Olson s 2002 FIG Script FIG typeface family is a series of OpenType fonts similar to the output of FIGlet. TOIlet seeks to extend FIGlet to use colour ... more details
Infobox font name small FIG small Script image FIGScript.png style Script typefaces Formal script date 2001 2002 creator Eric Olson foundry Process Type Foundry small FIG small Script is a script typeface designed by Eric Olson in 2002 for Process Type Foundry, a digital foundry which he co founded. The name small FIG small is an acronym for F rank Sheeran , I an Chai , and G lenn Chappell who collaborated in the development of the FIGlet computer program developed to generates text banners, in a variety of typefaces, composed of letters made up of arrangements of smaller small ASCII small characters. Olson used small FIG small let in creating his small ASCII small based small FIG small typefaces. Olson describes the small FIG small types as an exploration into the generative possibilities type design software and simple grid structures. While suggestion of a raster is clearly visible in the face, a hominess similar to that found in nineteenth century cross stitched samplers is also found. Many characters have swashes, and the overall effect is reminiscent of cursive. See also Samples of display typefaces References Eye magazine eye. 62 06, Winter 2006. Practice and Process Eric Olson. By Deborah Littlejohn, pages 21 24. External links http www.processtypefoundry.com typefaces fig info.html Process Type Foundry s web page on small FIG small typefaces Category Script typefaces Category Display typefaces ja FIG ... more details
lowercase The Unix banner Computer program program outputs a large ASCII art version of the text that is supplied to it as its command line argument program argument s. One use of the command is to create highly visible separator pages for print job s. ref name PracticalUnix cite book title Practical UNIX author Steve Moritsugu, Sanjiv Guha, James Edwards, David Pitts pages 220&ndash 221 publisher Que Publishing date 2000 isbn 078972250X isbn13 9780789722508 ref Operation Each argument is truncated at 10 characters and printed on a line of its own. To print multiple words on a single line, they must therefore be passed as a single argument, which is done from the shell computing shell by escaping or quoting the words as appropriate. ref name PracticalUnix A related, and more flexible, program is FIGlet , which can display text in different fonts and orientations. ref cite book title UNIX in a Nutshell author Arnold Robbins pages 24 publisher O Reilly date 2006 isbn 0596100299 isbn13 9780596100292 ref Implementation The way that the program is implemented internally is error prone and antiquated. The character fonts used are hardwired into the program code itself, as statically initialized data structures. Two data structures are used. The first is a data table comprising a sequence of printing instructions that encode the bitmap for each character in an encoding specific to the code banner code program . The second is an index into that table that indicates, for each character code, where the printing instructions for that character begin and end. ref name Spinellis cite book pages 70&ndash 71 title Code Quality author Diomidis Spinellis publisher Adobe Press date 2006 isbn 0321166078 isbn13 9780321166074 ref Both data structures were hand written. Spinellis observes that it is difficult to come up with a more error prone and unmaintainable data format . He observes a stark contrast between the source code of the code banner code program and automatically generated ... more details
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