Package: figlet
Version: 2.2.2-1
Severity: minor
The manpage states the following about the -o option:
If there is no information in the font about how to smush, or if
the -o option is specified, then the FIGcharacters are "over‐
lapped". This means that after kerning, the first subcharacter
of each FIGcharacter is removed. (This is not done if a
FIGcharacter contains only one subcharacter.)
However figlet behaves as documented in figfont.txt ("Layout Modes",
Smushing), ie. the first subcharacter of each FIGcharacter /replaces/
the previous FIGcharacter's subcharacter, if any:
Universal smushing simply overrides the sub-character from the
earlier FIGcharacter with the sub-character from the later
FIGcharacter. This produces an "overlapping" effect with some
FIGfonts, wherin the latter FIGcharacter may appear to be "in
front".
The manpage should be reworded.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
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APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.11
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages figlet depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
figlet recommends no packages.
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