Author: Enrico Bertolazzi (enric.nosp@m.o.be.nosp@m.rtola.nosp@m.zzi@.nosp@m.unitn.nosp@m..it), homepage: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bertolaz

Version: 1.0.2

Date: 2013

This library available at

implement a subset of Figlet capability, i.e. print large letters out of ordinary text

 _ _ _          _   _     _
| (_) | _____  | |_| |__ (_)___
| | | |/ / _ \ | __| '_ \| / __|
| | |   <  __/ | |_| | | | \__ \_
|_|_|_|\_\___|  \__|_| |_|_|___(_)

Differently of standard FIGlet command (http://www.figlet.org/) this print can be done inside a user program using run time generated string as follows

#include "Figlet.hh"
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;
 
int
main() {
  Figlet::standard.print("Fractions");
  for ( int i = 2; i <= 4; ++i ) {
    ostringstream ss;
    ss << "5/" << i << " = " << 5.0/i;
    Figlet::small.print(ss.str().c_str());
  }
  cout << "ALL DONE!\n";
  return 0;
}

which output is the following

 _____               _   _
|  ___| __ __ _  ___| |_(_) ___  _ __  ___
| |_ | '__/ _` |/ __| __| |/ _ \| '_ \/ __|
|  _|| | | (_| | (__| |_| | (_) | | | \__ \
|_|  |_|  \__,_|\___|\__|_|\___/|_| |_|___/
 
 ___   _____         ___   ___
| __| / /_  )  ___  |_  ) | __|
|__ \/ / / /  |___|  / / _|__ \
|___/_/ /___| |___| /___(_)___/
 
 ___   ______        _    __  __  __  ______
| __| / /__ /  ___  / |  / / / / / / / /__  |
|__ \/ / |_ \ |___| | |_/ _ Y _ Y _ Y _ \/ /
|___/_/ |___/ |___| |_(_)___|___|___|___/_/
 
 ___   ___ _          _   ___ ___
| __| / / | |   ___  / | |_  ) __|
|__ \/ /|_  _| |___| | |_ / /|__ \
|___/_/   |_|  |___| |_(_)___|___/

No initialization files are necessary. The fonts are hardware embedded in the library. The available fonts are:

banner
big
doom
larry3d
mini
script
small
standard
straight

A simple ruby script permits to convert figlet .flf files to structures which can be embedded in the library.