From: Mike Moore <blowmage@...>
Date: 2007-07-10T04:36:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Ascii art generator

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On 7/9/07, hadley wickham <h.wickham@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Sorry if this is a little bit of topic, but I'm trying to recall an
> ASCII art generator I once saw (written with ruby, I think) - you
> could give it a body of text, and a set of letters, and it would
> arrange the text to make the shape of the letters (ie. the big letters
> were made up of small words).  Does anyone have any idea what this
> might have been, or have I just imagined it?


Figlet is a nice little utility that creates large ASCII letters.  Its easy
to install and easy enough to call from Ruby, but it isn't written in Ruby.

http://www.figlet.org/

There is also the "text" gem that includes a Ruby version figlet, but I
never could get it to work on my system.

http://text.rubyforge.org/

Thanks,
>
> Hadley
>
>

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