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diff --git a/manuals/ponysay.texinfo b/manuals/ponysay.texinfo index 2e02e53..f998a67 100644 --- a/manuals/ponysay.texinfo +++ b/manuals/ponysay.texinfo @@ -797,6 +797,7 @@ but is still available at @url{https://github.com/maandree/kmsponies4ponysay}. @menu * Pony anatomy:: Anatomy of pony files. +* Pony quote infrastructure:: Pony quote infrastructure. * Printing in TTY with KMS:: Printing in TTY with KMS. * Truncation:: Output truncation. * Languages:: Selection of languages. @@ -809,17 +810,48 @@ but is still available at @url{https://github.com/maandree/kmsponies4ponysay}. @cindex pony anatomy @cindex anatomy of pony files -@b{This information applies to version 2.0 and earlier versions.} - -The pony files are cow files used by @command{cowsay}, they are partial Perl-scripts -that assign a value to a scalar variable named @code{$the_cow}. The files use a -predefined scalar named variable named @code{$thoughts}, these are used to create -a link between the message and the pony. The message (and the balloon) it self is -printed by @command{cowsay} and is not defined in the pony files. - -The pony images consists of white space, lower half blocks [U+2584], upper half -blocks [U+2580] and ANSI colour sequences (CSI m), and, in TTY, colour value change -sequences (OSI P). +The pony files are simple raw output data that can be printed to the terminal, +except it contains scalar variables. The pony images consists of white space, lower +half blocks [U+2584], upper half blocks [U+2580] and ANSI colour sequences (CSI m), +and, in TTY, colour value change sequences (OSI P). + +Variables are recalled by putting the variable's name between two dollar signs +(@code{$var$}), and are stored by putting the variable's name followed by the value +between two dollar signs and with a equality sign between the name and the value +(@code{$var=value$}). Variable names cannot include equality signs, but the value +can; dollar signs can be used by placin an ESC character before the dollar sign. + +There are three predefinied variables: @code{$$} (empty variable name), @code{$\$} +and @code{$/$}. @code{$$} has a dollar sign (@code{$}) as its value, while @code{$\$} +and @code{$/$} contains the characters for the link to the balloon directed in the +same direction as the variable name's slash. + +Prior to version 2.1 the pony files were cow files used by @command{cowsay}, they +are partial Perl-scripts that assign a value to a scalar variable named @code{$the_cow}. +Cow files use a predefined scalar variable named @code{$thoughts}, these are used +to create a link between the message and the pony. The message (and the balloon) +itself was printed by @command{cowsay} and is not defined in the cow files. + + +@node Pony quote infrastructure +@section Pony quote infrastructure +@cindex pony quote infrastructure +@cindex quote infrastructure + +When compiles pony quotes are built to @code{quotes}, the file names are lists of +ponies joined with plus signs (@code{+}) -- the pony names are the same as the pony files, +except they do not end with @code{.pony} -- with a index at the end, and a full stop +(@code{.}) before the index. + +The source files are located in @code{ponyquotes}, where their is a file named @code{ponies}. +This file is called the pony map, is the basis for how the compiled files are named. +In the ponymap ponies with the same quotes are on the same line join togather with plus +signs (@code{+}), if the lines because too long for file names the line is split into +multiple lines with the first pony in common. + +In @code{ponyquotes} there are also quote files, each contain just one quote, just as +when compiled to @code{quotes}. The source quote files are indentical to the compiled +quote files, except that there name contains just the first pony. @node Printing in TTY with KMS diff --git a/ponysay.pdf b/ponysay.pdf Binary files differindex 5b9bfa6..4e634fc 100644 --- a/ponysay.pdf +++ b/ponysay.pdf |