# ASCII text highlighting

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ascii-text-highlighting/130358>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 27, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ascii-text-highlighting/130358 "2008-02-27T16:52:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ribes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f4b2a3/32.png) [@ribes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ribes)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ascii-text-highlighting/130358/1 "2008-02-27T16:52:53Z")

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Hi Team,

Is there way to _highlight_ plain (ASCII) text?  
I mean something like:

v = “_This text should be displayed as bold_”

I need to create an ASCII report, where I imbed tabs (\t) and later  
import  
into an excel spreadsheet. The _bold_ highlight is for the title.

Thank you

Victor

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**Author:** ![ribes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f4b2a3/32.png) [@ribes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ribes)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ascii-text-highlighting/130358/2 "2008-02-27T17:18:17Z")

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[http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ansicolor/1.0.3](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ansicolor/1.0.3)

print “red bold”.red.bold, “\n”

Gerald

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**Author:** ![ribes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f4b2a3/32.png) [@ribes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ribes)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ascii-text-highlighting/130358/3 "2008-02-27T19:07:36Z")

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Thank You!

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Gerald M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)