PIRCH allows you to type using special attributes including bold, underlined, italics 
and fixed pitch and symbol fonts in addition to the standard font. The manner in which you
change the color of the letters to be displayed for everyone to see on the channel is a
little different depending when your are doing it. If you are doing it while you are live
on the channel you use one method. If the colors are to be produced from an Alias, Event 
or a Popup you would do it somewhat differently.

From the Command Line while live on the channel:

Use the keystrokes from the following table to change the attribute setting. The first time 
the attribute is used the attribute is enabled, the second time it is disabled and so on. 

        Attribute		Keystroke	
        Underlined		Ctrl-U
        Italics			Ctrl-I
        Bold			Ctrl-B
        Symbol Font		Ctrl-S
        Fixed Pitch Font	Ctrl-F
        Color			Ctrl-K plus the number code from the table below. If you want
                                it to have a background then the letter cod would go first
                                followed by a comma and then the second number like this:
                                Ctrl-k0,1 for white text on a black baground.

The Colors PIRCH supports use of up to 16 colors in your typing for both foreground and 
background effects. These are the colors:

      Color #     Name
        0         White
        1         Black
        2         Navy Blue
        3         Green
        4         Red
        5         Maroon
        6         Purple
        7         Olive
        8         Yellow
        9         Lime
       10         Teal
       11         Aqua
       12         Blue (Medium)
       13         Fuchsia (lilac)
       14         Gray
       15         Silver

For example... if you want to type the word Test in bright red press [Ctrl-K]4Test would 
come out as Test. To change the background to blue for the example press [Ctrl-K]4,12Test

Put no spaces between your "text" and the number used.

To return to normal text just press [Ctrl-K] followed by a space or any character other 
than a numeric digit.


In Aliases and  Popups to some extent you can copy what has been displayed on the screen
and it will print using the same color codes, with the same reults. However, you cannot do it 
with the Events. For that reason below you will find the manner to do the color coding for
Aliases, Events and Popups. The Color # and color represented are exactly as stated above. 
The codes for othe attribues are as follows:

     Attribute                    Code
     Bold                         \-2
     Color                        \-3
     Italic                       \-22
     Pitched Fix Font             \-17
     Symbol Font                  \-18
     Underline                    \-31



Using the above to make a statement that says "Hello Everyone" in a Medium Blue you would put:
                                \-3 12Hello Everyone
Medium Blue Bold                \-2 \-3 12 Hello Everyone
Medium Blue Bold on Silver      \-2 \-3 12,15 Hello Everyone

Notice that there must be a space between the \-2 and the \-3. And also between the \-3 and 
the color number. That is not true when using the Ctrl-k above. Also if you are going to use 
attributes like $$1, $nick, $snick, $time, $day, etc there must be a space between those and 
the color attribute. Like this:

   I say goodbye to all \-3 13 $members people \-3 3in # and especially to \-2 \-3 6 $$1

If it is \-2 \-3 6$$1 you will either get an error or no color. So if it does not print check
the line to make certain there is correct spacing. Remember you can take spacing out by using
the $+ in between 2 items. Notice that there does not need to be a space between a regular
word and the color attribute as in "\-3 3 in" abpve.

Ascii and the Symbol Font: FOR ALT CODES TYPED IN CHANNEL AND NOT SAVED IN AN ALIAS OR POPUP YOU
HAVE TO USE THE KEYPAD NOT THE NUMBERS ACROSS THE TOP OF YOUR ALPHA LETTERS... AND I SUGGEST YOU 
HAVE THE NUM LOCK ON ... for me if o don't then when i type text then try to use an alt code it 
erases the line and puts the alt code at the beginning of the line and i have to retype the text 
i just typed.. but if i have the num lock on it lets me put the colde anywhere with going to the 
beginning of the line.. ;) and if you have a laptop and no ketpad as a standard keyboard make sure 
it is in numeric mode ;) good luck 

Certain characters can only be made by using the symbol font and the Ascii characters in 
combination. To get the Ascii Code the best source is the Windows Character map. To make 
something like a heart you would do the following for a popup:

    \-18 \-3 4 (then hit Alt-0169) and you will produce a red heart

Honestly, it may be easier to make these at the command line using that method and then 
copying and pasting them into a Popup or an Alias than the way stated here, but for events 
they will have to be done this way.

At the command line you would produce a red heart by doing this:

  Ctrl-S Ctrl-K4 alt-0169

For further instructions get Popup.txt and Multi.txt













