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Introduction

Welcome to RealText, part of RealSystem G2, which lets you stream multimedia presentations over a network. With RealText you can stream text from files or live sources. You can create presentations consisting of text alone, or combine text with other types of media to create, for example, closed-captioned video. This guide tells you how to use the RealText mark-up language to format streaming text for playback in RealPlayer.

What You Need to Create RealText

You will need the following tools to create and test your RealText presentation:

Additional RealSystem Resources

In addition to this manual, you may need the following RealNetworks resources, available at http://www.real.com:

Conventions Used in this Manual

The following table explains the conventions used in this manual.

ConventionMeaning
variables Italicized text represents variables. Substitute values appropriate for your situation.
[options] Square brackets indicate optional values you may or may not need to use.
choice 1|choice 2 Vertical lines separate values you can choose between.
. . . Ellipses indicate nonessential information omitted from the example.


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This file last updated on 05/20/98 at 16:39:40.
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