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  Re: How to format / upload ANSI art directly into message?
  By: Digital Man to Hm Derdoc on Mon Sep 29 2025 10:48 am

 > I'm not clear why you would need to insert line feeds. You probably
shouldn't need to ( > assume the lines would already be terminated with line
feeds). Inserting line feeds int > the middle of arbitrary ANSI escape
sequences isn't likely to produce the output you wa
I started inserting line feeds because when I'd upload a file that was 38 rows
or so, it
would say "5 lines" inserted, and it would render on 5 lines, so it seemed
like getting
that count up to the right number as my ANSI might give it the space it needed
to render,
it did wind up with more vertical space, however alignment was still off
horizontally.  DoANSI editors insert line feeds by default though to wrap
text? It's my understanding that
could also be controlled by the terminals own wrapping behavior or an escape
sequence
telling it to go x = 1, y = y + 1... That is to say it doesn't seem like the
ANSI
editor(s) I've used insert those, but I could be wrong I guess, but if they
were there I'dexpect to see 38 lines uploaded when I just uploaded the
untransformed output from pablo
draw or moebius.  

 > Have you tried displaying the file locally (before uploading) but after
your script

 I've been looking at the transformations in Moebius to see if they are wonky,
some come
out fine, others don't look great but I still upload em in my test group to
see if they
solved anything.  I just decided to drop one into a directory I can use
echicken's
ansiviewer, and it looks ok there too.  I do sort of wonder if my ANSI is too
ambitious,
so I've sort of been trying just to render a much more basic rectangle, was
out of
alignment last I checked too.  I wonder if using 80 cols is too much sometimes
for an ad.

 > processes the file?
 > One other thing, your QWKnet tag line appears to be using an unsupported
method of Ctrl > code insertion, "\1" isn't how it's done in the
 > SCFG->Networks->QWK->Default Tagline. You should be able to just type a
literal Ctrl-A
 > character/key sequence there.

Ahh thanks, I was wondering what it looked like, I couldn't see it in my own
messages, I
edited some raw text file to set that up so that's why I used \1, wasn't sure
it would
work, and now it's been confirmed not to ;)

Maybe there's some oddities to be taken into consideration when creating BBS
ads, I'd
certainly start over from scratch if I knew I was using wrong technique before
and right
technique going forward.

Cheers,
hm

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