I looked a some ebook software, and considered html but they both
suck. what I have in mind is a format of two columns on screen:
xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
two 39 char columns looks a lot like a book or magazine article, and
is gonzo easier to read onscreen. Then, I tried adding ANSI color for
dialogue with male voices in blues and fems in reds. Ordinarily, we
see short lines of he said: something.
then she said: something else
and he tried to put in: a word here
and then she went on: with more here.
the result is a lotta wasted space on the page or screen. by using
color, the lines of dialogue can follow one another without wasting
space saying who said what. I can change the foreground color in
HTML, but when I try background, it wants to change the color of the
whole page. Inverse ANSI is easy.
I found I could set the right margin at 39, then use FOLD.EXE to
convert it into two pages (designed for brochures on printers) port it
to a file with 43 lines per page, and use a batch file to keep track
of what page the reader last read.
In dos. I also found an assembler that will port it to Linux, and the
win users can use a dos box. So, anyone with an x86 on down to an XT
with EGA can read it with any x86 OS.
But- I cant find a dos text editor that will let me make macros with
the escape key which ANSI wants. as in {esc}[0m ... I cant put the
escape key here either.
Anyone know of anything to do this? Or something that will chop a long
text file into 43 line files like page.001, 002, 003, etc. ?
uncopywritten- do what you will with it.
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