{"id":931,"date":"2010-12-02T00:24:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T04:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2014-01-25T17:50:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T21:50:21","slug":"ascii-art-code-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/02\/ascii-art-code-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"ASCII Art Code Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"#\">Nick Kaye<\/a> emailed me yesterday suggesting I add a feature to the <a href=\"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/software\/taag\/\">Text ASCII Art Generator<\/a> program which would allow for the output to be formatted in the form of a C-style programming comment. He even offered to write the code patch himself.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the idea was really cool, and took him up on his offer. Anyway, the new feature is under the &#8220;More Options&#8221; link in the TAAG interface. Once it&#8217;s turned on, you&#8217;ll get output that&#8217;s formatted in the form of a programming comment. Here is an example:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"font-family:'courier new';\">\r\n\/***\r\n *                      .___       \r\n *      ____   ____   __| _\/ ____  \r\n *    _\/ ___\\ \/  _ \\ \/ __ |_\/ __ \\ \r\n *    \\  \\___(  <_> ) \/_\/ |\\  ___\/ \r\n *     \\___  >\\____\/\\____ | \\___  >\r\n *         \\\/            \\\/     \\\/ \r\n *\/\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>If anyone has any issues or additional suggestions let me know. And thanks again to Nick!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Kaye emailed me yesterday suggesting I add a feature to the Text ASCII Art Generator program which would allow for the output to be formatted in the form of a C-style programming comment. He even offered to write the code patch himself. I thought the idea was really cool, and took him up on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/02\/ascii-art-code-comments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ASCII Art Code Comments<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-apps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}