Day wrote:
>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.
Wouldn't that just be complicated when five people talk? How would you know
which person said what then?
>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.
Yes of course, since you are using BODY BACKGROUND= you do change the
entire page. You need to put it in a TABLE, and then you can set the color.
Beware that not all older web-browsers can handle this (something like NS
2.x, IE 3.x).
>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.
Edit can IIRC, if all else fails you can always do it in debug. After doing
it once you can easily copy it to every place you need it in while inside
your favorite editor (assuming it has cut'n'paste).
>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. ?
"head" and "tail" in *NIX could do that for you rather easily. I guess
there are ports of it for DOS as well.
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