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    From Malvinas@VERT/TECHNOA to All on Friday, May 16, 2025 18:54:00
    I'm thinking about publishing articles in the form of an electronic magazine, distributed in a .zip with a few text files with the articles.
    Which software should I use? I would like it to be in ascii format and have some level of ascii art decor where the text would be inserted.

    Malvinas.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to Malvinas on Saturday, May 17, 2025 08:29:00
    Malvinas wrote to All <=-

    I'm thinking about publishing articles in the form of an electronic magazine, distributed in a .zip with a few text files with the
    articles. Which software should I use? I would like it to be in ascii format and have some level of ascii art decor where the text would be inserted.

    I'd say nano, or vim.

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    Hmmmm... Not really.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Malvinas on Sunday, May 18, 2025 10:00:00
    Malvinas wrote to All <=-

    I'm thinking about publishing articles in the form of an electronic magazine, distributed in a .zip with a few text files with the
    articles. Which software should I use? I would like it to be in ascii format and have some level of ascii art decor where the text would be inserted.

    I'd use any console text editor, just for consol-ey goodness. With most windowed text editors, you run into issues with word wrapping - change
    the size and you change where it wraps, which you don't want with a text editor.

    There are a ton of editors for DOS, TSEPro for Windows, and Linux
    distros all have nano, vi and joe available.






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  • From Darkman Almighty@VERT/UNDERGRO to Malvinas on Sunday, May 18, 2025 12:15:00
    On 16 May 2025, Malvinas said the following...

    I'm thinking about publishing articles in the form of an electronic magazine, distributed in a .zip with a few text files with the articles. Which software should I use? I would like it to be in ascii format and have some level of ascii art decor where the text would be inserted.

    Malvinas.

    Sounds cool. When I published a similar venture, I used MS Office PowerPoint. It provided me the ability to change backgrounds, font, add pictures etc. You can then save the project as a PDF too.

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  • From Matthew Munson@VERT/IUTOPIA to MALVINAS on Saturday, May 24, 2025 10:02:00
    MALVINAS wrote to ALL <=-

    I'm thinking about publishing articles in the form of an electronic magazine, distributed in a .zip with a few text files with the
    articles. Which software should I use? I would like it to be in ascii format and have some level of ascii art decor where the text would be inserted.

    I was thinking of doing the same as well. I want to make a monthly maagazine. Mine would npot be in ascii, it would be full on professional style with Serif Publisher.

    Maybe a good text editor program might do the job.

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  • From Cougar428@VERT/CJSPLACE to MATTHEW MUNSON on Sunday, May 25, 2025 08:04:00
    Quoting Matthew Munson to Malvinas <=-

    MALVINAS wrote to ALL <=-

    I'm thinking about publishing articles in the form of an electronic magazine, distributed in a .zip with a few text files with the
    articles. Which software should I use? I would like it to be in ascii format and have some level of ascii art decor where the text would be inserted.

    I remember seeing stuff done with "The Draw" which was awesome. I never
    used it myself, but it sounds like what you are looking for.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw

    Download at:
    http://www.syaross.org/thedraw/

    I was thinking of doing the same as well. I want to make a monthly maagazine. Mine would npot be in ascii, it would be full on
    professional style with Serif Publisher.

    Maybe a good text editor program might do the job.

    Let me know when you both finish a sample so I can check them out!

    Have a great day!

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Malvinas on Monday, June 23, 2025 23:50:00
    Re: soft for an e-zine in ascii text mode
    By: Malvinas to All on Fri May 16 2025 18:54:58

    Which software should I use? I would like it to be in ascii format and have some level of ascii art decor where the text would be inserted.

    Since you want to incorporate ANSI art, why not use an ANSI editor, like Icy Draw, Moebius, REXdraw, etc. The text formatting would have to done manually, but you'd have full freedom on where everything goes.

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