announcing: Rita The Reader

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Thomas,

Another good idea, and simple too, adapting to different screen
sizes. Stay tuned.

Chuck


On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Thomas Stivers wrote:

> On Jun 02 2004  4:10 PM, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > This initial version does not yet support continuous reading.
> > It's a worthwhile suggestion though and I may play with that idea
> > a little.
>
> You could have a .reta/retarc file which contains a delay value that is
> user configurable. having looked at the code it looks like this
> shouldn't be too hard.
>
> Another feature I would find useful is if rita could use terminfo or
> some such to see how big my terminal is and use all the lines. I use a
> 48x128 screen and would like to at least get 47 lines per page even if
> lines wrap at 80.
>
> > The problem, as I said to Jacob, is to figure out how fast to
> > automatically move to a new screen. I personally find that the
> > obligation to press the space bar every couple of minutes keeps
> > me awake! I have sometimes dozed off while listening to a tape,
> > only to come to when the story has gone off to goodness knows
> > where. But if there is sufficient interest, I guess I could see
> > what I could do.
>
> I think we've all dozed a bit listening to tapes, especially some of the
> readers I have heard. Sometimes I think it is a race to see who falls
> asleep first, the reader or me.
>
> --
> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
>
> Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
>
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