4DOS

[josh]

Hi,

How much can you get an external doubletalk for these days? or an artic or 
accent synth?

email: jkenn337 at gmail.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gaijin" <gaijin at clearwire.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: 4DOS


> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:32:57PM -0500, Doug Smith wrote:
>> What I want to do is to write a science fi???tion story series, put up a
>> web site, and publish this story series for sale.  However, I don't
>> want to have to do it with a text editor.  I want real word processing
>> software to do it with.
> :End-Quote:
>
> Have you tried contacting ExLibris?  They will often take on new
> authors and publish their works on the web, rather than going through
> the trouble of running off a full-fledged printing that may or may not
> sell.  As for jstar, it's likely only a text editor with WordStar key
> commands.  Even WordStar professional used dot-commands to modify text
> attributes, since it wasn't a GUI word processor.  You get the same
> effect by using tron/troff commands in a document in *nix.   A couple
> keystrokes would hide or display those dot-commands, as well as the
> carriage returns at the end of each paragraph.  WordStar Pro would just
> save each paragraph as a single line of text, but display it on-screen
> as being wrapped, as well as line text up on the right margin as well as
> the left, so it looked like your typical printed page.  It did have a
> graphical print preview that would show you what the eventual printed
> page would look like though, but it was a CLI/text-only word processor.
> Since I barely have the GUI working on this thing, I can't tell
> you much more about the word processors in linux.  Perhaps Open Office.
> Also, O'Reilly's tech manuals very closely match their HTML  versions
> published on the web, so you might consider using HTML to format your
> text, rather than tron and troff.  I never really got into the printing
> aspects of Linux.  linuxprinting.org might have more info on the
> subject.  HTH,
>
> Michael
>
>
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