[request for help]Shortcuts to make ASCII-shapes?

[dancing_moon]

I'm thinking of handing in the latest creative writing prompt for school in some neat shape. It's a short (for once!) poem, so I think that would work.

But does anyone know any shortcut to use, if you want the words/letters to arrange themselves in shapes without actually sitting and playing around with space and tab for hours?

I do, alas, not own Photoshop but have GIMP...

Originally posted at Dreamwidth.