.\" FIGlet .\" Copyright (C) 1991, 1993, 1994 Glenn Chappell and Ian Chai .\" Internet: .\" Portions Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 by John Cowan .\" Portions Copyright 2002 by Christiaan Keet .\" FIGlet, along with the various FIGlet fonts and documentation, may .\" be freely copied and distributed. .\" If you use FIGlet, please send an e-mail message to .\" .\" .TH FIGLET 6 "05 July 2005" "v2.2.2" .SH NAME FIGlet \- display large characters made up of ordinary screen characters .SH SYNOPSIS .B figlet [ .B \-cklnoprstvxDELNRSWX ] [ .B \-d .I fontdirectory ] .PD 0 .IP .PD [ .B \-f .I fontfile ] [ .B \-m .I layoutmode ] .PD 0 .IP .PD [ .B \-w .IR outputwidth ] [ .B \-C .I controlfile ] .PD 0 .IP .PD [ .B \-I .I infocode ] [ .I message ] .SH DESCRIPTION .B FIGlet prints its input using large characters (called ``FIGcharacters'')made up of ordinary screen characters (called ``sub-characters''). .B FIGlet output is generally reminiscent of the sort of ``signatures'' many people like to put at the end of e-mail and UseNet messages. It is also reminiscent of the output of some banner programs, although it is oriented normally, not sideways. .B FIGlet can print in a variety of fonts, both left-to-right and right-to-left, with adjacent FIGcharacters kerned and ``smushed'' together in various ways. .B FIGlet fonts are stored in separate files, which can be identified by the suffix .RB `` .flf ''. Most .B FIGlet font files will be stored in .B FIGlet's default font directory. .B FIGlet can also use ``control files'', which tell it to map certain input characters to certain other characters, similar to the Unix .B tr command. Control files can be identified by the suffix .RB `` .flc ''. Most .B FIGlet control files will be stored in .B FIGlet's default font directory. You can store .B FIGlet fonts and control files in compressed form. See .BR "COMPRESSED FONTS" . .SH USAGE Just start up .B FIGlet (type .RB `` figlet '') and then type whatever you want. Alternatively, pipe a file or the output of another command through .BR FIGlet , or put input on the command line after the options. See .B EXAMPLES for other things to do. .SH OPTIONS .B FIGlet reads command line options from left to right, and only the last option that affects a parameter has any effect. Almost every option has an inverse, so that, for example, if .B FIGlet is customized with a shell .BR alias , all the options are usually still available. Commonly-used options are .BR \-f , .BR \-c , .BR \-k , .BR \-t , .B \-p and .BR \-v . .TP .BI \-f \ fontfile Select the font. The .B .flf suffix may be left off of .IR fontfile , in which case .B FIGlet automatically appends it. .B FIGlet looks for the file first in the default font directory and then in the current directory, or, if .I fontfile was given as a full pathname, in the given directory. If the .B \-f option is not specified, .B FIGlet uses the font that was specified when it was compiled. To find out which font this is, use the .B \-I3 option. .TP .BI \-d \ fontdirectory Change the default font directory. .B FIGlet looks for fonts first in the default directory and then in the current directory. If the .B \-d option is not specified, .B FIGlet uses the directory that was specified when it was compiled. To find out which directory this is, use the .B \-I2 option. .TP .B \-c .PD 0 .TP .B \-l .PD 0 .TP .B \-r .PD 0 .TP .B \-x .PD These options handle the justification of .B FIGlet output. .B \-c centers the output horizontally. .B \-l makes the output flush-left. .B \-r makes it flush-right. .B \-x (default) sets the justification according to whether left-to-right or right-to-left text is selected. Left-to-right text will be flush-left, while right-to-left text will be flush-right. (Left-to-right versus right-to-left text is controlled by .BR \-L , .B \-R and .BR \-X .) .TP .B \-t .PD 0 .TP .BI \-w \ outputwidth .PD These options control the .IR outputwidth , or the screen width .B FIGlet assumes when formatting its output. .B FIGlet uses the .I outputwidth to determine when to break lines and how to center the output. Normally, .B FIGle
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affected by the .B \-w and .B \-t options. .RE .IP If .I infocode is any other positive value, .B FIGlet will simply exit without printing anything. .TP .B \-L .PD 0 .TP .B \-R .PD 0 .TP .B \-X .PD These options control whether .B FIGlet prints left-to-right or right-to-left. .B \-L selects left-to-right printing. .B \-R selects right-to-left printing. .B \-X (default) makes .B FIGlet use whichever is specified in the font file. Once the options are read, if there are any remaining words on the command line, they are used instead of standard input as the source of text. This feature allows shell scripts to generate large letters without having to dummy up standard input files. An empty argument, obtained by two sequential quotes, results in a line break. .SH EXAMPLES To use .B FIGlet with its default settings, simply type .RS .nf .ft B example% figlet .ft R .fi .RE and then type whatever you like. To change the font, use the .B \-f option, for example, .RS .nf .ft B example% figlet \-f script .ft R .fi .RE Use the .B \-c option if you would prefer centered output: .RS .nf .ft B example% figlet \-c .ft R .fi .RE We have found that the most common use of .B FIGlet is making up large text to be placed in e-mail messages. For this reason, .B FIGlet defaults to 80 column output. If you are using a wider terminal, and would like .B FIGlet to use the full width of your terminal, use the .B \-t option: .RS .nf .ft B example% figlet \-t .ft R .fi .RE If you don't want .B FIGlet to smush FIGcharacters into each other, use the .B \-k option: .RS .nf .ft B example% figlet \-k .ft R .fi .RE If .B figlet gets its input from a file, it is often a good idea to use .BR \-p : .RS .nf .ft B example% figlet \-p < myfile .ft R .fi .RE Of course, the above can be combined: .RS .nf .ft B example% figlet \-ptk \-f shadow < anotherfile example% figlet \-cf slant .ft R .fi .RE Finally, if you want to have .B FIGlet take the input from the command line instead of a file: .RS .nf .ft B example% figlet Hello world .ft R .fi .RE .SS Other Things to Try On many systems nice effects can be obtained from the .B lean font by piping it through .BR tr . Some you might want to try are the following: .RS .nf .ft B example% figlet \-f lean | tr ' _/' ' ()' example% figlet \-f lean | tr ' _/' './\e\e' example% figlet \-f lean | tr ' _/' ' //' example% figlet \-f lean | tr ' _/' '/ ' .ft R .fi .RE Similar things can be done with the .B block font and many of the other .B FIGlet fonts. .SH COMPRESSED FONTS You can compress the fonts and controlfiles using the .B zip archiving program. Place only one font or controlfile in each archive, and rename the archive file (which will have a name ending in .BR .zip ) back to .B .flf or .B .flc as the case may be. If you don't rename the file appropriately, .B FIGlet won't be able to find it. .B FIGlet does not care what the filename within the .B .zip archive is, and will process only the first file. The .B .zip format was chosen because tools to create and manipulate it are widely available for free on many platforms. .SH THE STANDARD FONTS Here are a few notes about some of the fonts provided with .IR FIGlet . You can get many other font from the Web site .br http://www.figlet.org/ This location should also contain the latest version of .B FIGlet and other related utilities. The font .I standard is the basic .B FIGlet font, used when no other font is specified. (This default can be changed when .B FIGlet is compiled on your system.) The .I controlfiles .IR 8859-2 , .IR 8859-3 , .IR 8859-4 , and .I 8859-9 are provided for interpreting those character sets, also known as ISO Latin-2 through Latin-5 respectively. The character set 8859-1 (ISO Latin-1) is .B FIGlet's default and requires no special .IR controlfile . Closely related are the fonts .IR slant , .IR shadow , .IR small , .I smslant (both small and slanted), .IR smshadow , (both small and shadowed), and .IR big . These fonts support only Latin-1, except that .I big supports Greek FIGcharacters as well; the .I controlfiles .I frango (for Greek text written in Latin characters, so-called .RI `` frangovlakhika ''), and .I 8859-7 (for mixed Latin/Greek text) are provided. The .I ivrit font is a right-to-left font including both Latin and Hebrew FIGcharacters; the Latin characters are those of the .I standard font. The available .I controlfiles are .IR ilhebrew , which maps the letters you get by typing on a U.S. keyboard as if it were a Hebrew keyboard; .IR ushebrew , which makes a reasonable mapping from Latin letters to Hebrew ones; and .IR 8859-8 , which supports mixed Latin/Hebrew text. .B Warning: .B FIGlet doesn't support bidirectional text, so everything will come out right-to-left, even Latin letters. The fonts .IR terminal , .IR digital , and .I bubble output the input character with some decoration around it (or no decoration, in the case of .IR terminal ). The characters coded 128 to 159, which have varying interpretations, are output as-is. You can use the appropriate .I controlfiles to process Latin-2, Latin-3, or Latin-4 (but not Latin-5) text, provided your output device has screen or printer fonts that are appropriate for these character sets. Two script fonts are available: .IR script , which is larger than .IR standard , and .IR smscript , which is smaller. The font .I lean is made up solely of `/' and `_' sub-characters; .I block is a straight (non-leaning) version of it. The font .I mini is very small, and especially suitable for e-mail signatures. The font .I banner looks like the output of the .B banner program; it is a capitals and small capitals font that doesn't support the ISO Latin-1 extensions to plain ASCII. It does, however, support the Japanese .I katakana syllabary; the .I controlfile .I uskata maps the upper-case and lower-case Latin letters into the 48 basic .I katakana characters, and the .I controlfile .I jis0201 handles JIS 0201X (JIS-Roman) mixed Latin and .I katakana text. Furthermore, the .I banner font also supports Cyrillic (Russian) FIGcharacters; the .I controlfile .I 8859-5 supports mixed Latin and Cyrillic text, the .I controlfile .I koi8r supports the popular KOI8-R mapping of mixed text, and the .I controlfile .I moscow supports a sensible mapping from Latin to Cyrillic, compatible with the .I moscow font (not supplied). The fonts .I mnemonic and .I safemnem support the mnemonic character set documented in RFC 1345. They implement a large subset of Unicode (over 1800 characters) very crudely, using ASCII-based mnemonic sequences, and are good for getting a quick look at UTF-8 unicode files, using the controlfile .IR utf8 . .SH FILES .PD 0 .TP 20 .IB file .flf .B FIGlet font file .TP 20 .IB file .flc .B FIGlet control file .PD .SH DIAGNOSTICS .B FIGlet's diagnostics are intended to be self-explanatory. Possible messages are .RS .nf .ft B Usage: ... Out of memory Unable to open font file Not a FIGlet 2 font file Unable to open control file Not a FIGlet 2 control file "\-t" is disabled, since ioctl is not fully implemented. .ft R .fi .RE This last message is printed when the .B \-t option is given, but the operating system in use does not include the system call .B FIGlet uses to determine the terminal width. .B FIGlet also prints an explanatory message if the .B \-F option is given on the command line. The earlier version of .BR FIGlet , version 2.0, listed the available fonts when the .B \-F option was given. This option has been removed from .B FIGlet 2.1. It has been replaced by the .B figlist script, which is part of the standard .B FIGlet package. .SH ORIGIN .RB `` FIGlet '' stands for ``Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters''. Inspired by Frank's .sig, Glenn wrote (most of) it, and Ian helped. Most of the standard .B FIGlet fonts were inspired by signatures on various UseNet articles. Since typically hundreds of people use the same style of letters in their signatures, it was often not deemed necessary to give credit to any one font designer. .SH BUGS Very little error checking is done on font and control files. While .B FIGlet tries to be forgiving of errors, and should (hopefully) never actually crash, using an improperly-formatted file with .B FIGlet will produce unpredictable output. .B FIGlet does not handle format characters in a very intelligent way. A tab character is converted to a blank, and vertical-tab, form-feed and carriage-return are each converted to a newline. On many systems, tabs can be handled better by piping files through .B expand before piping through .BR FIGlet . .B FIGlet output is quite ugly if it is displayed in a proportionally-spaced font. I suppose this is to be expected. Please report any errors you find in this man page or the program to .SH MAILING LIST You can get many fonts which are not in the basic .B FIGlet package from the Web site http://www.figlet.org/ It should also contain the latest version of .B FIGlet and other utilities related to .BR FIGlet . We run 3 e-mail lists dedicated to .B FIGlet software and font announcements, as well as general discussion about .BR FIGlet : figlet@figlet.org General discussion figletfonts@figlet.org Font announcements figletsoftware@figlet.org Software announcements (The last two lists are moderated) To subscribe or unsubscribe from the FIGlet mailing lists, please visit the corresponding URL: http://www.figlet.org/mailman/listinfo/figlet http://www.figlet.org/mailman/listinfo/figletfonts http://www.figlet.org/mailman/listinfo/figletsoftware .SH AUTHORS Glenn Chappell did most of the work. You can e-mail him but he is not an e-mail fanatic; people who e-mail Glenn will probably get answers, but if you e-mail his best friend: Ian Chai , who .I is an e-mail fanatic, you'll get answers, endless conversation about the mysteries of life, invitations to join some 473 mailing lists and a free toaster. (Well, ok, maybe not the free toaster.) Frank inspired this whole project with his .sig, but don't e-mail him; he's decidedly an un-e-mail-fanatic. Gilbert "The Mad Programmer" Healton added the .B \-A option for version 2.1.1. This option specified input from the command line; it is still allowed, but has no effect. John Cowan added the .BR \-o , .BR \-s , .BR \-k , .BR \-S , and .B \-W options, and the support for Unicode mapping tables, ISO 2022/HZ/Shift-JIS/UTF-8 input, and compressed fonts and control files. He also revised this documentation, with a lot of input from Paul Burton . Christiaan Keet revised the official FIGlet documentation and set up the new FIGlet website at http://www.figlet.org/ (and the corresponding ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/)