Template:HexRow
Here's an all-ASCII alternative to GIF/PNG snapshots of hex data.
Editable by anyone, "right there", in parallel with related documentation.
Either embedded in the article using it, or in a subpage of the article.
- (in that case, transcluded and made directly editable via a header)
- (but if one wants to keep the doc in sync, it's not such a good idea)
- Usage
The following input :
{|border=1 cellspacing=0
{{HexRow|0x00
|01|51|02|00|01|00|00|06|AD|DE|AD|DE|AD|DE|AD|DE
|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00
|00|00|00|00|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF
|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00
|Who needs this?°}}
{{HexRow|0x10
|AD|DE|AD|DE|AD|DE|AD|DE|AD|DE|AD|DE|AD|DE|AD|DE
|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00
|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF|FF
|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00
|}}
|}
produces the following output :
| 0x00 | 01 | 51 | 02 | 00 | 01 | 00 | 00 | 06 | AD | DE | AD | DE | AD | DE | AD | DE | Who needs this?° |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0x10 | AD | DE | AD | DE | AD | DE | AD | DE | AD | DE | AD | DE | AD | DE | AD | DE | °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° |
There are 65 arguments; they are not named, but they line up intuitively.
- The first argument is the data's offset (default is 0x00, maybe it should be blank).
- The next 16 arguments are the 16 hex bytes.
- Then you have the RGB components of every byte's background :
- 16 "red" bytes
- 16 "green" bytes
- 16 "blue" bytes
- Finally, you can add an ASCII translation if you so wish.
- Most of the time it's actually irrelevant; I'd systematically show all non-printable chars as °.
- If all 16 chars are non-printable, leave the last argument blank (the default value is °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°)
Only the fixed-size font is specified in this template, as well as bold for offset for offset and ASCII.
The rest (cell spacing/padding, border, alignment on page, background color, etc) is set at table level.