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diff --git a/manuals/ponysay.texinfo b/manuals/ponysay.texinfo index 312a542..c0d3633 100644 --- a/manuals/ponysay.texinfo +++ b/manuals/ponysay.texinfo @@ -143,6 +143,10 @@ specify a set of ponies from which one will be selected randomly. If no pony is specified one will be selected randomly. @cindex @command{util-say} +@cindex .png +@cindex png images +@cindex images, png +@cindex portable network graphics If you have @command{util-say} installed, you can use .png-files as the arguments for this options. @@ -194,8 +198,12 @@ this is by default 40, which is inherited from @command{cowsay}. @itemx --compress @cindex @command{-c} @cindex @command{--compress} +@cindex figlet +@cindex toilet Compress the message in the same way @command{cowsay} does, that is basically -without multiple spaces, one only paragraphs seperations. +without multiple spaces, one only paragraphs seperations. Using this options +will mean that you cannot display @command{filet} and @command{TOIlet} style +messages. @item -l @itemx --list @@ -498,12 +506,6 @@ look different, maybe using box drawing characters. on the balloon–pony links. or any other placement of the balloon than at the top to the left. -@cindex figlet -@cindex toilet -@command{cowsay}'s word wrapping handles single line breaks as normal blank spaces, -this messes up messages created with programs such as @command{figlet} and @command{TOIlet}. - - @node Problems and requests @@ -576,6 +578,7 @@ This is a wrapper for @command{cowsay}. For improved TTY support for user with custom colour palette and KMS support. It can be downloaded at @url{https://github.com/maandree/util-say}. +@cindex .png @cindex png images @cindex images, png @cindex portable network graphics @@ -874,10 +877,11 @@ but is still available at @url{https://github.com/maandree/kmsponies4ponysay}. * Pony anatomy:: Anatomy of pony files. * Pony quote infrastructure:: Pony quote infrastructure. * Balloon style files:: Balloon style files. -* Printing in TTY with KMS:: Printing in TTY with KMS. +* Printing in TTY with KMS:: Printing in TTY with KMS support. * Truncation:: Output truncation. -* Languages:: Selection of languages. -* Shell auto-completion:: Things make auto-completion simpler. +* Languages:: Selection of programming languages. +* Shell auto-completion:: Things that make auto-completion simpler. +* Universal Character Set:: Something about Univeral Character Set support. @end menu @@ -1103,6 +1107,30 @@ but does not exist, i.e. does not have a .pony-file, are not listed. Auto-completion scripts should not suggest these options. +@node Universal Character Set +@section Universal Character Set +@cindex universal character set +@cindex ucs +@cindex unicode +@cindex pony names + +In earlier versions of @command{ponysay} only the output truncationed supported +Universal Character Set, though handcoded UTF-8 character counting. Now @command{ponysay} +lets Python decode the data, Python store all 31 bits of a character in as one +character, not in UTF-16 as some other languages does, this means that the code +is agnostic to the chararacter encoding. However in Unicode 6.1 their are four ranges +of combining characters, these do not take up any width in proper terminal, we +their for have a class in the code named @code{UCS} that help us take them into +consideration when determine the length of strings. + +Some ponies have names contains non-ASCII characters, read about it in +@ref{Environment variables}. The UCS names are stored in the file @code{share/ucsmap}, +in it lines that are not empty and does not start with a hash (@code{#}) are parse, and +contains a UCS name and a ASCII:ised name. The UCS name comes first, followed by the +ASCII:ised name that it should replace or link to. The two names are separated by and +simple left to right arrow character [U+2192], optionally with surrounding white space. + + @node Contributing @chapter Contributing @@ -1153,6 +1181,35 @@ For more information see: @end example @* +@cindex util-say +@cindex .png +@cindex png images +@cindex images, png +@cindex portable network graphics +If you have util-say installed, which is required to build ponies, you can run @code{.png} +files as argument for @command{ponysay -f}, this required that the file is named @code{.png} +at the end. + +@cindex palette +@cindex xterm palette +@cindex pony palette +@cindex colour palette +The following @code{bash} code will print the palette the ponies (the terminals) use. +@example +c=16 +while ((c < 256)); do + echo -en "\e[48;5;${c}m \e[49m" + c=$(( $c + 1 )) + if (( $(( c % 36 )) == 16 )); then + echo + fi +done; echo +@end example + +@* +For the palette to be correct, which is especially important when you draw ponies, you +must not redefine the colours in the range 16 to 255 (inclusive). + @cindex ttypony When a pony is added please also add a ttypony version, i.e. the pony files used in TTY, but if you don't please state so in the pull request so we do not miss the create it; |