4DOS

[Nick Stockton]

You can still buy the doubletalk lt from rc systems for $200
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: 4DOS


> Hi,
>
> How much can you get an external doubletalk for these days? or an artic or
> accent synth?
>
> email: jkenn337 at gmail.com
> skype: jkenn337
> msn: kenn6498ku at hotmail.com
> ----- 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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