clear2ooo

big letters

the big letters were done by "figlet" but was from a "fig-font" that i designed.  this was the most for "cool numbers".  the serif print that used to be all over newspapers.  the type that "mlb-dot-com" used to have on their articles before they changed to a stale sans-serif font.  the "agave mono" nerd font almost does it.  this is to show zero, one and two like lowercase letters like "e", six and eight like uppercase letters and the other numerals dip down the "main margin" like lowercase letters like "g".  in my font, however, i hated only two sigils being "large" but three being the smallest.  therefore the two is like capital letter in my font.

only about the numbers, this "fig-font" is similar to the one by rogier van dalen called "garogier".  i provide the web link from where i obtained the truetype version of that font.

https://www.fontspace.com/garogier-font-f8003

this "fix" for one strange character.  reminds me of getting the "fantasque mono" nerd font and hoping i could use the version which doesn't have the weird loop on lowercase "k".  but alas both regular-style font files seem to have been identical, that i got from github.  along with many others like "agave mono" and "cousine mono".

i was supposed to finish this "fig-font" to include more high-bit ascii characters.  i managed to include the spanish exclamation and question punctuation marks.  also traditional division symbol.  also long hyphen, not sure if i put it in right ascii code.  one thing that sucks about figlet is there have to be eight sigils used in german.  it is ascii code 127 and seven others.  even if somebody doesn't care about this language.  please don't ask me for my "dot-flf" file.  i will keep it to myself since i had bad experience with other people on forums.  i hate social networking.

i used stoopid qb64pe editor to create the "clear2ooo introduction" screen.  because it kept stripping spaces at the end of lines without any way to disable it, i was forced to switch to another text editor.  eventually i had to insert fake ansi escape codes.  tried to keep it aligned and with colors.  the periods at the end of the big letters were added by me in vain attempt to get a rectangular green background field for them.  i wrote a qb64pe helper program for it which let me use '''~''' squiggle to be substituted for '''CHR$(27) + "["'''.  originally the "clear2ooo" was supposed to be on the side of the fake coco screen.  originally the coco code wasn't supposed to produce the black band.  but it would have been extremely boring.

