FIGlet
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FIGlet is a computer program that generates text banners, in a variety of typefaces, composed of letters made up of conglomerations of smaller ASCII characters (see ASCII art).
Being free software, FIGlet is commonly included as part of many Unix-like operating system (Linux,[1] BSD, etc.) distributions, but it has been ported to other platforms as well. The official FIGlet FTP site includes precompiled ports for the Acorn, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, BeOS, Macintosh, MS-DOS, NextStep, OS/2, and Windows platforms, as well as a reimplementation in Perl (Text::FIGlet).[2] There are third-party reimplementations of FIGLet in Java[3] (including one embedded in the JavE ASCII art editor), JavaScript[4] and PHP.[5][6] FIGlet was featured as a Debian Package of the Day in 2007.[7]
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[edit] Behavior
FIGlet can read from standard input or accept a message as part of the command line. It prints to standard output. Some common arguments (options) are:
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-fto select a font file. -
-dto change the directory for fonts. -
-ccenters the output. -
-lleft-aligns the output. -
-rright-aligns the output. -
-tsets the output width to the terminal width. -
-wspecifies a custom output width. -
-kenables kerning, printing each letter of the message individually, instead of merged into the adjacent letters.
[edit] Sample usage
An example of output generated by FIGlet is shown below.
__ ___ _ _ _ _
\ \ / (_) | _(_)_ __ ___ __| (_) __ _
\ \ /\ / /| | |/ / | '_ \ / _ \/ _` | |/ _` |
\ V V / | | <| | |_) | __/ (_| | | (_| |
\_/\_/ |_|_|\_\_| .__/ \___|\__,_|_|\__,_|
|_|
The following code:
figlet -ct -f roman Wikipedia
generates this output:
oooooo oooooo oooo o8o oooo o8o .o8 o8o
`888. `888. .8' `"' `888 `"' "888 `"'
`888. .8888. .8' oooo 888 oooo oooo oo.ooooo. .ooooo. .oooo888 oooo .oooo.
`888 .8'`888. .8' `888 888 .8P' `888 888' `88b d88' `88b d88' `888 `888 `P )88b
`888.8' `888.8' 888 888888. 888 888 888 888ooo888 888 888 888 .oP"888
`888' `888' 888 888 `88b. 888 888 888 888 .o 888 888 888 d8( 888
`8' `8' o888o o888o o888o o888o 888bod8P' `Y8bod8P' `Y8bod88P" o888o `Y888""8o
888
o888o
The -ct options centers the text and makes it take up the full width of the terminal. The -f roman option specifies the 'roman' font file.
[edit] FIGlet based ASCII typefaces
Eric Olson's 2002 FIG typeface family is a series of OpenType fonts similar to the output of FIGlet.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ↑ Stutz, Michael (2001). "Text Fonts". The Linux Cookbook. No Starch Press. ISBN 1886411484. http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_20.html#SEC321. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
- ↑ "Official FIGlet FTP site". ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/program/. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
- ↑ Rigaut, Benoît (1996). "Figlet Java". http://www.rigaut.com/benoit/CERN/FigletJava/. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
- ↑ Gillespie, Pat (2006). "TAAG". http://patorjk.com/software/taag/. Retrieved 2008-05-01.
- ↑ Baltes, Lucas. "PHP Figlet". http://www.phpclasses.org/phpfiglet. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
- ↑ "Zend Framework – Zend_Text_Figlet Component". http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.text.html#zend.text.figlet.
- ↑ Tincho (2007-03-25). "FIGLET: a totally useless, therefore essential tool". http://debaday.debian.net/2007/03/25/figlet-a-totally-useless-therefore-essential-tool/. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
