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# a2m
Convert ansi art to mirc art.
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![screenshot](https://github.com/tat3r/a2m/blob/master/screenshot.png?raw=true)
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For reference screenshot is iTerm2 with Menlo font ssh'd to a linux
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machine attached to a tmux session running irssi.
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## Installation
run make and copy a2m wherever you want.
## Usage
run a2m -h for a list of options
## Troubleshooting
### IRC Client
IRCCloud doesn't work very well. It's monospaced font is *Iconsolata*, served
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up by Google Web Fonts, which doesn't draw the block characters correctly
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(see below). Mirc has broken unicode support.
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### Terminal
Don't use reverse video, just make foreground white on black background, but
not bright white, there should be two different whites, bright white and
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grayish white, 16 unique colors in all, as shown below:
Color | Regular | Bold
------|---------|-----
Black | #000000 (0, 0, 0) | #555555 (85, 85, 85)
Red | #aa0000 (170, 0, 0) | #ff5555 (255, 85, 85)
Green | #00aa00 (0, 170, 0) | #55ff55 (85, 255, 85)
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Yellow | #aa5500 (170, 85, 0) | #ffff55 (255, 255, 85)
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Blue | #0000aa (0, 0, 170) | #5555ff (85, 85, 255)
Magenta | #aa00aa (170, 0, 170) | #ff55ff (255, 85, 255)
Cyan | #00aaaa (0, 170, 170 ) | #55ffff (85, 255, 255)
White | #aaaaaa (170, 170, 170) | #ffffff (255, 255, 255)
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### Font
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Try *Andale Mono* or *Menlo* for Mac. *Deja Vu Sans* for Linux,
*Lucida Console* Windows.
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If the font you use is missing some of the block drawing unicode
characters its going to borrow them from another font, which
will probably having a different width than the original font.