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- To scroll up, press the left mouse button...
-
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-
- This is a SHAREWARE Teleprompter program that's
- highly configurable.
-
- Through tooltypes or CLI command line, the user may
- set the following:
- the font used
- whether to interlace or not
- the scrolling speed
- the default style
- the ASCII text file to use
- vertical spacing
- white-on-black or black-on-white
- and the number of lines to scroll automatically.
-
- Teleprompter allows in-line style changes to/from
- bold, underline, italic, or reverse lettering using
- control sequences like \\b .
-
- Teleprompter works from either CLI or Workbench,
- on OS 1.2 or higher.
-
- This archive, TelePrmt.lha, may be distributed under
- the following conditions:
-
- 1. Nothing except reasonable media fees may be
- charged.
- (i.e. Fish Disks, Aminet CD are OK)
-
- 2. Neither the files nor the archive may be
- altered in any way.
-
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-
- Now, on with how it works...
-
- The right button will jump backwards one line, and
- holding both buttons will skip forward one line.
-
- On the keyboard, the spacebar will cause it to scroll
- forward, the up arrow will jump backward one line,
- and the down arrow will jump forward one line.
-
- The scroll speed can be adjusted with the left/right
- arrow keys ( left=slower, right=faster ) but you
- won't see any changes until you hit the spacebar or
- the left mouse button.
-
- Hitting the escape key will end the program at any time.
-
- Using embedded control sequences (backslash & a
- letter), you can emphasize text in the following ways:
-
- \\b Toggles \bBold\b on/off
- \\u Toggles \uUnderlining\u on/off
- \\i Toggles \iItalicization\i on/off
- \\r Toggles \rReverse text\r on/off
-
- \iany \ucombination \iof \bthese \uis \ipossible
-
- Back to the default style (using \\n) \nhere...
-
- Look at this file with a text editor (like Ed)
- to see how this is working.
-
-
- ToolTypes recognized by Teleprompter are:
-
- \bFONTNAME\b=\iname[.font]\i
- specify the name of the font to use
- (default is ruby -- please change it)
-
- \bFONTSIZE\b=\i15\i
- give the size of the font in decimal
- (default is 15)
-
- \bFILENAME\b=\iname\i
- give the name of the file to be teleprompted
- (if not specified, you will be prompted)
-
- \bSCROLLSPEED\b=\i2\i
- give the number of pixels to move each scroll.
- (default is 2, higher is faster & jerkier)
-
- \bWHITEONBLACK\b=\iFALSE\i
- this is the default, set it to TRUE if you
- want white letters on a black background
-
- \bDEFAULTSTYLE\b=\iNORMAL\i
- this is the default, ie no special things on.
- the available types are:
- \uUNDERLINE\u
- \bBOLD\b
- \iITALIC\i
- \rREVERSE\r
- \nNORMAL
- if specified, NORMAL will override all others.
- if you want more than one, string them
- together with the | character (vert bar)
-
- \bSPACING\b=\i1.5\i
- this allows you to adjust the vertical spacing
- it may range from 1.0 to 3.0
-
- \bINTERLACE\b=\iFALSE\i
- this is the default, set it to TRUE if you
- want an interlaced screen. (warning, it
- may be harder to read...)
-
- \bSTARTLINES\b=\i2\i
- specifies how many lines should be scrolled
- up without waiting for mouse or keyboard.
- By setting this to a huge number, you could
- have a file scroll by in its entirety
- without user input. (only the escape key
- will be checked-for during this kind of
- scroll)
-
- These tooltypes may be specified in either the
- Teleprompter icon itself, or in the icon of the file
- being used. (You can set teleprompter to be the
- default tool of a text file, or click once on
- teleprompter, hold shift, and click twice on the icon
- of the file to be used.) If any tooltypes are given
- in both the Teleprompter's icon AND in the text
- file's icon, the latter will override the former.
- The tooltypes that are set in the archive show all
- the default values. Any tooltype can be "commented
- out" by putting an asterisk (*) in front of it.
-
-
- FROM CLI:
-
- To run it from the command line, you would type:
-
- 1> Teleprompter [filename] [TOOLTYPE=value..]
-
- where you would use any or all of the above listed
- tooltypes right on the command line,
- for example:
-
- 1> Teleprompter filename SPACING=1.25 FONTSIZE=36
-
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