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What is it?

‘TENGlet’ is program that creates large characters out of ordinary screen characters

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                                       88                
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    88     .    `Y888P'88  .8P        .88  bdP      .dP  
    `Yb...dP           88                         .dP'   
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If it sounds familiar, than you probably know about FIGlet. FIGlet is great tool, which I don’t want to replace with my poor code. This program was written mainly for tengwar typing and doesn’t feature FIGlet’s enhancements like smushing, line wrapping, direction of text and others.

Why didn’t I use figlet, then? When you want to type i.e. ‘la’, you print the letter ‘l’ first and then you print the ‘a’ sign above the previous letter. FIGlet can’t do that (afaik)

But this project is mainly about the font file. It is heavily based on Belinda Asbell’s figlet font, which is great, but unsuitable for serious tengwar typing, because many tengwar, tehtar and various other signs and curls are missing. My font contains full Daniel S. Smith’s keymapping, which is respected as standard in tengwar coding.

Format of file

If you like this idea and want to contribute to ascii world, make another font! Format is very easy.

.First line is header:
tlf HEIGHT MAX_WIDTH

than all characters follow. Each character is defined by it’s own header and body.

.Header of TENGchar:
(. || alt/(0-255)]) LEFT_SHIFT [*]

Sample definitions could be:

alt/0032 0 #space
j 0 #lambe

Body of character follows. It’s just HEIGHT*line ended with ’@’ sign. No empty lines are allowed in font file.

Input

Unless you remember all keys from Dan Smith’s keymapping, you will need transcriber. There is plenty of them on net. For example:

• oTT – http://tengwar.art.pl/tengwar/ott/english.php which runs online.

• YaTT – http://linux.fjfi.cvut.cz/~nemec/tengwar/ from my beloved home country :)

• Tengwar Scribe – http://at.mansbjorkman.net/tengscribe.htm best known. Check also ModeEditor.

• TENG – http://tengwarformal.limes.com.pl/teng/ my personal favorite. It is text filter (same as my program) and supports TengScribe-created modes. And, hey, it’s written in pascal :)

Download

tenglet-1.0.tar.gz | md5sum: 138bb787269c82d2f876fd7921ea53b3

Enjoy:)