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a2m
Convert ansi art to mirc art.
For reference screenshot is iTerm2 with Andale Mono font ssh'd to a linux machine attached to a tmux session running irssi.
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 up by Google Web Fonts, which doesn't draw the block characters correctly (see below).
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 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) |
| Yellow | #aa5500 (170, 85, 0) | #ffff55 (255, 255, 85) |
| 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) |
Font
The font you use needs to be monospaced obviously but if its missing some of the block drawing unicode characters its going to borrow them from another font, which will probably having a different width, resulting in poor alignment and jagged edges. Andale Mono is the best I've found so far.