Short:        render text banners from a font
Author:       ferber@rpksun2.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
Uploader:     ferber rpksun2 mach uni-karlsruhe de
Type:         text/misc
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

     BANNER is a smart character rendering utility for - surprise -
     banners.  It can only be used from within the command line of a
     CLI or a SHELL. By default BANNER will print your string into the
     SHELL using an internal font which contains the ASCII characters
     from 32 (space) to 126 (overscore).  If you don't like them you
     can also tell BANNER to render the characters out of any other font
     that is accessable via the diskfont.library.

EXAMPLES
     Print the string 'banner' using the internal font

      1> banner banner

     will result in the following output

                   __
                  / /
                 / /___ ______ ______ ______ ______ _____
                / __  // __  // __  // __  // ____// .__/
               / /_/ // __  // / / // / / // __/_ / /
              /_____//_/ /_//_/ /_//_/ /_//_____//_/


     Rendering 'banner' from topaz.font 8

      1> banner render banner


               bbb
               bb
               bb bb    aaaa   nnnnn   nnnnn    eeee  rrr rr
               bbb bb      aa  nn  nn  nn  nn  ee  ee  rrr rr
               bb  bb    aaaa  nn  nn  nn  nn  eeeeee  rr  rr
               bb  bb  aa  aa  nn  nn  nn  nn  ee      rr
                bbbb    aaa aa nn  nn  nn  nn   eeee  rrrr


     Rendering from the new topaz.font (Kick 2.0+) using an asterisk '*' for
     set pixels and a period '.' for unset pixels

      1> banner render font topaz.font size 8 set * unset . string banner

              .**.............................................
              .**.............................................
              .*****....****...*****...*****....****...*****..
              .**..**......**..**..**..**..**..**..**..**..**.
              .**..**...*****..**..**..**..**..******..**.....
              .**..**..**..**..**..**..**..**..**......**.....
              .*****....*****..**..**..**..**...****...**.....
              ................................................