Re: Editing Menu .ASC files
  By: Va7aqd to Digital Man on Fri Mar 22 2019 02:54 pm

 >   Re: Editing Menu .ASC files
 >   By: Digital Man to Clifra Jones on Mon Jul 23 2018 01:56 pm
 >
 >  > If you PaboDraw or any editor that supports Synchronet control-A codes
 >  > directly, then you don't need to convert to/from ANSI at all.
 >
 > (This isn't just for Digital Man... it's for whomever has any
 > recommendations)
 >
 > I have tried PabloDraw (3.2.1) on Linux on a couple of different machines
 > and if I try loading head.asc it is
 > mostly gibberish (ie, doesn't seem to be handling the CTRL-A codes at all).

When you open the file with PabloDraw, you need to select "Ctrl-A" from the
format drop-down box in "Select the file to open" dialog. Without doing that,
PabloDraw will assume the .asc files is straight-ASCII. This is one reason to
use .msg files instead of .asc files if you don't need both.

 > So, I have done asc2ans on it and tried editing the resulting head.ans file,
 > but I'm having some fun issues
 > because the canvas size is 80 wide and the @-codes are extending the lines
 > beyond that.

Did you try using the "Set Width" option to extend the canvas?

 > It seems like, without a better editor, the workflow is along the lines of:
 >
 > - Convert file from .asc to .ans
 > - Get the file in to PabloDraw, edit the sauce info, set the width to 95
 > columns or so
 > - Do the work
 > - Convert back from .ans to .asc
 >
 > I haven't done the last couple of steps yet, as PabloDraw has crashed after
 > starting editing... but, I'm
 > curious, is this the sort of process everyone's going through if they are
 > looking to customize their look?

Nope, I either directly edit with a text editor (e.g. vi, notepad), or I use
PabloDraw. Very rarely, I'll use TheDraw to edit the .ans or .bin version of a
file.

                                            digital man

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