emotes in cheeta and fonts (fonts.html)

Emote information page

This page is provided to assist those who may wish to use font support in their emotes. It is only here for that purpose. Due to some restrictions on what certain browsers will display it may or may not provide you with the information needed, but every attempt has been made to test them on the most popular browser types. It works best with Internet Explorer Browsers. Not Netscape. Do not copy from Source as it has been altered to display HTML codes as text. Not all browsers seem to recognize some fonts used on this page.

Since chat is based on HTML the changes to the font types are done with basic HTML commands or adaptations of that form. Most any graphical font can be used for this purpose but one should be aware of the fact that it is dependant on the fonts installed on the typical system. So for that purpose I will confine this page to the three most used font types typically found on Win98/2000 systems. With almost an unlimited supply of font types available, it would be impossible to keep up with all the possible types of items available anyway. The font types generally used for chat emotes are Webdings, Wingdings and Wingdings2. There are countless others however most are not found on the typical system so there is little point in using fonts not installed on the receiving end of chat emote, as they will only display as command default text as set by the program in use. To get an idea of the types of graphical items included in a font one can go to a typical empty room in chat and with Cheetachat simply select the font one would wish to view and start typing letters. They would then display as the font selected. Most seem to wish to use the HEART in their emote so we will use that item for an example.

The heart in an emote is not hard to add. It should be noted that this example is for Cheetachat software and Yahoo using Cheetachat. The use of it with a browser may or may not work depending on the browser used, and may also result in class 1 HTML errors. To correct this for use with browsers and posting in HTML chats, you must close any open HTML Tags. To do this you would simply add a closing tag to most font commands. ( ) in the example.

Y Y Y Hello Everyone %N The line would look about like this in an emote:
Y Y Y Hello Everyone

It should be further noted that font sizing for Yahoo or Cheetachat is not done with the same settings as browsers. The Cheetachat / Yahoo uses the point value of the font. In other words 10 is 10 point font sizes. Browsers use a slightly different sizing methiod with sizes 1 threw 7 or +1 threw +4 in most cases. So you may have to change the sizes shown depending on how you are planning on using basic font sizes. Keep in mind that webpages are going to use the browser sizing. Size changes to the font may be nessesary using the standard used by the program that is to display the font. Typical browser sizing is based on the default setting of ones browser. In other words if you have your default browser set to a 10 point font, and an HTML page has +2 for a font size, for a given line, it would display as 12 point text. However in some programs such as Cheetachat and Yahoo chat the font size is given in the point size of the font. So a 12 in that is a 12 point size on a given font. So in the example for the heart above you can see I have used a 12 point size.

Font colors. One can also change the font color with a color tag also. The typical heart would be red which could be done with either the <red> or <#ff0000> added to the command line. Typical colors will work in the text format, but the hex code version is far better to use when possible and allows for a much wider range of possible colors. Since the 65,000 plus color list is far too long to display here I suggest you consider a color picker or some HTML editor to find the possible hex code version of the color you may wish to use. Since this is mostly for the benefit of those using Cheetachat, I will show an additional version one could use for an emote. Keep in mind the placement of the %N in the emote is also a factor in how the emote is displayed. For the general emote to the room, the %N is at the end of the line typically, but for the personal emote (when directed to one person) the %N will be where that Chat ID is inserted in the emote.

Example

<#ff8080> Y <#ff80c0> Y <#ff0080> Y <ff0000> Y <#ff8040> Hello Everyone !!! <#ff0000> Y <#ff0080> Y <#ff80c0> Y <#ff8080> Y 
And that should give you this:

Y Y Y Y Hello Everyone !!! Y Y Y Y

Again keep in mind this is for Cheetachat software as well as a few other applications. It is not for webpage HTML. To correct the above code for webpage display you you need to include the color="hexcode" within the tag statement, about like this.

 hello

Other emote funtions.

Additional items can be done in the emotes that many are not aware of. While some may be useful others may be a bit advanced for some users of the program however here are a few examples.

Display of Time
You can display the time on your system clock in an emote by using %T in the emote.

Display of Date
You can display the date on your system clock setting by using @Date in the emote.

Display of Ignored number
You can display the number of ignored chatters by using the # @ignorecount in the emote.

The end result could be an emote that would do something like this.

Congratulations [username] you are the lucky number 200 on my ignore list at September 5th,2000 at 21:46:05 !

To do that in an emote:
Congratuations %N you are the lucky # @ignorecount on my ignore list at @Date at %T

Hex codes for Color selections.

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I hope this helps with some of your questions concerning font placement in emotes.

12-20-01