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<h1>asciiblaster documentation</h1>

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These are some handy documents which address some of the more obscure features of asciiblaster:

<h2>Tips on using the keyboard</h2>
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[                                   Decrease brush size
]                                   Increase brush size
&lt;Alt&gt; + &lt;LMB&gt; on canvas             Fill brush with sampled color
&lt;Alt&gt; + &lt;Shift&gt; + &lt;LMB&gt; on canvas   Copy canvas to brush
&lt;Ctrl&gt; + &lt;LMB&gt; on brush             Erase cell
&lt;Ctrl&gt; + &lt;LMB&gt; on canvas            Draw with background color
&lt;Shift&gt; + &lt;LMB&gt; on canvas           Draw line from last position
&lt;Shift&gt; + &lt;LMB&gt; on character box    Switch to next character set
&lt;Shift&gt; + &lt;LMB&gt; on stored brush     Delete stored brush
&lt;RMB&gt; on palette                    Set background color (when drawing with a letter)
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<h2>Notate bene</h2>
Characters not forming part of the initial set in the character box beneath the colour palette
encode to, assuming UTF-8, 2-3 bytes in total vs. one (1) byte for those part of the initial
set (e.g. 0-9, A-Z, a-z, etc.)

Repeating patterns of alternating back- and foreground colours, and vice versa, are encoded
using a single (1) byte in mIRC format (video reverse) and as such save space, especially
with large numbers of repetitions or alternations.

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