From 22c1fc020ab50fa18ba1a68d4165ed6b625e7fb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Andrée Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 01:44:47 +0200 Subject: m + work on info manual --- manuals/ponysay.texinfo | 176 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 164 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'manuals') diff --git a/manuals/ponysay.texinfo b/manuals/ponysay.texinfo index d25cfdf..00b77de 100644 --- a/manuals/ponysay.texinfo +++ b/manuals/ponysay.texinfo @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover -Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU -Free Documentation License''. +Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled +``GNU Free Documentation License''. @end quotation @end copying @@ -49,15 +49,18 @@ Free Documentation License''. @menu * Overview:: Brief overview of @command{ponysay}. * Invoking ponysay:: How to run @command{ponysay}. +* Advanced usage:: Advanced usage of @command{ponysay}. * Environment:: Environment variables. -@c Extensions * Limitations:: Limitations. * Problems and requests:: Reports and requests. +* Dependencies:: Dependencies. * GNU Free Documentation License:: Copying and sharing this manual. * Concept index:: Concept index. @end menu + + @node Overview @chapter Overview @cindex overview @@ -70,6 +73,8 @@ is printed on standard output. @command{ponythink} is to @command{ponysay} as @command{cowthink} is to @command{cowsay}. + + @node Invoking ponysay @chapter Invoking @command{ponysay} @cindex invoking @@ -138,6 +143,46 @@ If you want to use @command{ponysay} without arguments and enter the message by hand, you can run @code{cat | ponysay}. + +@node Advanced usage +@chapter Advanced usage of @command{ponysay}. +@cindex advanced usage + +@cindex fortune +If you have @command{fortune} installed -- this program may be named +@command{fortune-mod} in your GNU/Linux distributions package reposity -- +you can run @code{fortune | ponysay} to get a random pony reading a +random fortune cookie. + +@cindex on startup +By adding @code{fortune | ponysay} to the end [easiest way] of your +@code{~/.bashrc} -- or equivalent for your shell if use do not use GNU Bash +(standard shell for most distributions now adays) -- you will get the +effect described in the previous paragraph every time you open a terminal. + +@cindex tty +@cindex linux vt +If you use TTY and have a custom colour palette, you should also add to your +@code{~/.bashrc}, before @code{fortune | ponysay}: +@example +[[ "$TERM" = "linux" ]] && + function ponysay + @{ exec ponysay "$@@" + #RESET PALETTE HERE + @} +@end example + +@cindex ponification +@cindex ponypipe +You can ponify text (i.e. replaces words search as ``everyone'' with ``everypony'') +by using @code{fortune | ponypipe} instead of using @command{fortune}. +@command{ponypipe} can be downloaded from @url{https://github.com/maandree/ponypipe}. +Alternatively use can use @command{pinkie} (or @command{pinkiepie}), which can +be downloaded from @url{https://github.com/maandree/pinkie-pie}, which is just +@code{fortune | ponypipe}. +Their is also a large sed script, similar to @command{ponypipe}: @url{http://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlelinux/comments/srixi/using_ponysay_with_a_ponified_fortune_warning/} + + @node Environment @chapter Environment variables @cindex environment variables @@ -176,30 +221,54 @@ are not running @command{ponysay} under TTY. + @node Limitations @chapter Limitations @cindex limitations @menu * Terminals:: Limitations on terminals. -@c Cowsay +* Cowsay:: Limitations on cowsay, @end menu + @node Terminals @section Terminals - Ponysay works perfectly on @command{xterm}, @command{xterm} like terminals including @command{putty}, settings may however need to be customised for Unicode Character Set (UCS) support, but less well, depending on font, on VTE based terminals including @command{mate-terminal}. -On Linux's native terminal Linux VT (or TTY) it works less well, and not good at all -with Kernal Mode Settings (KMS) support. See @url{https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/issues/1} -for more information. +On Linux's native terminal Linux VT (TTY) it works less well, and not good at all with +Kernal Mode Settings (KMS) support. See @url{https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/issues/1} +for more information. @command{ponysay} clears the screen before printing to TTY, this +is because if your graphics driver supports KMS, the colours will be messed by when the +ponies position moves on the screen, this is also reason why the output is truncated on +the height in TTY by default. + +Due to extreme limitations in @command{9term} @command{ponysay} will never be able to +run on it. + + +@node Cowsay +@section Cowsay + +When @command{cowsay} determines the length of a word it measures in number of bytes +(in UTF-8), therefore non-ascii words will malformat the balloon with the message. + +Further, @command{cowsay} does not recognise ANSI escape sequences, therefore, using +colours and text styling in messages will also malformat the balloon with the message. -Due to extreme limitations in @command{9term} @command{ponysay} will never be able -to run on it. +@command{cowsay} does not support balloon, including the link between the message and +the pony, customisation, other than using @command{cowthink}. However you can modify +@command{cowsay} (written perl, so you can edit the installed files) to make the balloon +look different, maybe using box drawing characters. + +@cindex figlet +@cindex tiolet +@command{cowsay}'s word wrapping handles single line breaks as normal blankspaces, +this messes up messaged created with programs seach as @command{figlet} and @command{TOIlet}. @@ -208,9 +277,10 @@ to run on it. @menu * Problems:: Reporting bugs. -* Requests:: Requestig ponies. +* Requests:: Requesting ponies. @end menu + @node Problems @section Reporting bugs @cindex bugs @@ -221,8 +291,9 @@ present, please report it at @url{https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/issues}. Please be as descriptive as possible, as it will help us verify it solve it faster. + @node Requests -@section Requestig ponies +@section Requesting ponies @cindex pony requests If you want I specific pony added, ask us at @url{https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/issues} @@ -230,6 +301,85 @@ and we will add it. To speed the up the process, if possible, supply good pictures. Full visibly, transparent background, and pixelated are the properties that makes a picture good. + + +@node Dependencies +@chapter Dependencies +@cindex dependencies + +@menu +* Required runtime dependencies:: Required runtime dependencies. +* Optional runtime dependencies:: Optional runtime dependencies. +* Package building dependencies:: Package building dependencies. +* Dependencies for pony providers:: Dependencies for pony providers. +@end menu + + +@node Required runtime dependencies +@section Required runtime dependencies + +@table @option +@item bash +Required for the main script [file: @command{ponysay}]. +@item cowsay +This is a wrapper for @command{cowsay}. +@item coreutils +The main script [file: @command{ponysay}] uses @command{stty}, @command{cut}, +@command{ls}, @command{cat}, @command{sort}, @command{readlink}, @command{pwd}, +@command{head} and @command{tail}. +@item sed +Used to remove @code{.pony} from pony names when running @command{ponysay -l} +and @command{ponysay -L}. +@item perl +Required to run @command{ponysay -l} and @command{ponysay -L}. +@end table + +@node Optional runtime dependencies +@section Optional runtime dependencies +@cindex extensions +@cindex ponyquotes4ponysay + +@table @option +@item ponyquotes4ponysay +For support of My Little Pony quotes with associated pony: the @code{-q} option. +It can be downloaded at @url{https://github.com/maandree/ponyquotes4ponysay}. +@end table + + +@node Package building dependencies +@section Package building dependencies + +@table @option +@item gcc +Used for compiling @command{ponysaytruncater.c}. +@item gzip +Used for compressing manpages. +@item make +Required to run the make script. +@item coreutils +The make script uses @command{install}, @command{unlink}, @command{rm}, @command{ln}, +@command{mkdir} and @command{cp}. +@end table + + +@node Dependencies for pony providers +@section Dependencies for pony providers +@cindex contributing + +@table @option +@item make +Required to run @command{make -B ttyponies`}. +@item coreutils +@command{ln} and @command{readlink} are used in the @command{ttyponies} subscript. +@item bash +Used in the ttyponies subscript. +@item util-say +Used by @command{make ttyponies} to build ttyponies from xterm ponies. +It can be downloaded at @url{https://github.com/maandree/util-say}. +@end table + + + @node GNU Free Documentation License @appendix GNU Free Documentation License @include fdl.texinfo @@ -238,5 +388,7 @@ properties that makes a picture good. @appendix Concept index @printindex cp + + @bye -- cgit From 492b62f39e5a798a2253f2b39345313fb58ebae6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Andrée Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:55:29 +0200 Subject: m + work in info manual --- manuals/ponysay.texinfo | 160 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 158 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'manuals') diff --git a/manuals/ponysay.texinfo b/manuals/ponysay.texinfo index 00b77de..c90cd4c 100644 --- a/manuals/ponysay.texinfo +++ b/manuals/ponysay.texinfo @@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled * Limitations:: Limitations. * Problems and requests:: Reports and requests. * Dependencies:: Dependencies. +* Installing:: Installing. +@c Extensions +@c Inner workings->Pony anatomy +* Contributing:: Contributing. +* Ponysay constributors:: Ponysay constributors. +* Ponysay license:: Ponysay license. * GNU Free Documentation License:: Copying and sharing this manual. * Concept index:: Concept index. @end menu @@ -250,12 +256,17 @@ the height in TTY by default. Due to extreme limitations in @command{9term} @command{ponysay} will never be able to run on it. +Most terminals have support for 256 colours, we do however only use the top 240 colours; +this is because the lower 16 colours are usally, in contrast to the top 240, customised. +We assume that the top 240 colours have their standard values. In TTY with KMS support +we dot have any actual (except for @math{2^{24}} + full transparency.) + @node Cowsay @section Cowsay When @command{cowsay} determines the length of a word it measures in number of bytes -(in UTF-8), therefore non-ascii words will malformat the balloon with the message. +(in UTF-8), therefore non-ASCII words will malformat the balloon with the message. Further, @command{cowsay} does not recognise ANSI escape sequences, therefore, using colours and text styling in messages will also malformat the balloon with the message. @@ -265,6 +276,10 @@ the pony, customisation, other than using @command{cowthink}. However you can mo @command{cowsay} (written perl, so you can edit the installed files) to make the balloon look different, maybe using box drawing characters. +@command{cowsay} does support setting the minimum size of the balloon, both directions +on the balloon–pony links. or any other placement of the balloon than at the top to +the left. + @cindex figlet @cindex tiolet @command{cowsay}'s word wrapping handles single line breaks as normal blankspaces, @@ -380,6 +395,148 @@ It can be downloaded at @url{https://github.com/maandree/util-say}. +@node Installing +@chapter Installing +@cindex installing +@cindex make + +Before installing @command{ponysay}, make sure your system have the packages listed under +@ref{Required runtime dependencies} and @ref{Package building dependencies} installed. + +Tarballs can be downloaded at @url{https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/tarball/master} +for bleeding edge, or from @url{https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/tags} for releases. + +If you have @command{git} you @command{clone} the project URL +@url{https://github.com/erkin/ponysay.git}. + +In the terminal,@command{cd} into the ponysay directory and execute +@command{make && make install}. This will install @command{ponysay} into the +@code{/usr}, meaning you may need to run @command{make install} as root, +e.g. by running @command{sudo make install}. + +Now you will be to use ponysay, run: @command{ponysay "I am just the cutest pony!"}, +or if have a specific pony in your mind: @command{ponysay -f pinkie "Partay!~"}. + +@command{ponysay} comes with a manpage in section 6, @command{man 6 ponysay} +(or just @command{man ponysay}). The man page is also available in Spanish: +@command{man -L es 6 ponysay}. + + + +@node Contributing +@chapter Contributing + +@menu +* Providing ponies:: Providing ponies +@end menu + +@node Providing ponies +@section Providing ponies +@cindex create pony file + +Most pony images are browser ponies or desktop ponies, browser ponies is a port of +desktop ponies, implementing it in JavaScript. Browser ponies are available at +@url{https://github.com/panzi/Browser-Ponies}. Desktop ponies are available at +@url{http://desktop-pony-team.deviantart.com/}. + +There is also a collection of ponies that are not yet pixelated in a Java reimplementation: +@url{https://github.com/maandree/unisay/tree/develop/dev/newponies} +@* + +New ponies can be created from regular images by using util-say, which is available +at @url{https://github.com/maandree/util-say}. +@command{img2xterm} (@url{https://github.com/rossy2401/img2xterm}) was used earlier, +but util-say tries do optimise the images in some aspects: as good as possible for +low capability terminals, tries to place the pony–balloon link, displayed as good as +possible when marked in the terminal (somewhat compromised by the first aspect.) + +Using util-say: +@example +img2ponysay -2 -- SOURCE_IMAGE > PONY_FILE + +PONY_FILE should end with .pony and be localed in ponies/ + +Omit -2 if the source image does not use double pixel size. + +For more information see: +@url{https://github.com/maandree/util-say/wiki/img2ponysay} +@end example + +@* +@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; +the simplest way to do this is to run @command{make -B ttyponies} after adding the ponies +to @code{ponies/}, running @command{make -B ttyponies} will build (or rebuild) all +ttyponies with a pony present in @code{ponies/}, and creates all needed symlinks. + +To be able to run @command{make -B ttyponies} you must have the packages listed under +@ref{Dependencies for pony providers}. + + + + +@node Ponysay constributors +@appendix Ponysay constributors + +Active developers of ponysay: +@itemize @bullet +@item Erkin Batu Altunbaş +@item Mattias Andrée +@item Sven-Hendrik Haase +@item Pablo Lezaeta +@item Jan Alexander Steffens +@end itemize +@* +Patchers and other contributors of ponysay: +@itemize @bullet +@item Elis Axelsson +@item Duane Bekaert +@item Kyah Rindlisbacher +@item James Ross-Gowan +@item Louis Taylor +@item Jannis +@end itemize + + +@node Ponysay license +@appendix Ponysay license + +Ponysay is Free Software (yet not Open Source) and in licensed under the terms +of Do What The Fuck You Want To Public Licese (WTFPL) version 2. + +You have the four essential freedoms: +@itemize @bullet +@item +The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). +@item +The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. +@item +The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2). +@item +The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. +@end itemize + +@* + +@center DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE +@center Version 2, December 2004 + +Copyright @copyright{} 2012 Erkin Batu Altunbaş + +@quotation +Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified +copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long +as the name is changed. + + DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE +TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION + +0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO. +@end quotation + + + @node GNU Free Documentation License @appendix GNU Free Documentation License @include fdl.texinfo @@ -389,6 +546,5 @@ It can be downloaded at @url{https://github.com/maandree/util-say}. @printindex cp - @bye -- cgit From 122f1da602b9039c1f3dc958f5e1a355a6daf44a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Andrée Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:22:46 +0200 Subject: fix on env var --- manuals/manpage.6 | 2 +- manuals/manpage.es.6 | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'manuals') diff --git a/manuals/manpage.6 b/manuals/manpage.6 index daa221e..07f88c9 100644 --- a/manuals/manpage.6 +++ b/manuals/manpage.6 @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ of how many blank lines you want. Naturally this takes effect if the output is n than the screen. .TP .B PONYSAY_FULL_WIDTH -You can export \fIPONYSAY_FULL_WIDTH\fP with the value \fIno\fP, \fIn\fP or \fI0\fP, if you +You can export \fIPONYSAY_FULL_WIDTH\fP with the value \fIyes\fP, \fIy\fP or \fI1\fP, if you do not want the output to be truncated on the width to fit the terminal. .TP .B PONYSAY_TRUNCATE_HEIGHT diff --git a/manuals/manpage.es.6 b/manuals/manpage.es.6 index 6e14d11..59e0ead 100644 --- a/manuals/manpage.es.6 +++ b/manuals/manpage.es.6 @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ el valor de cuantas líneas blancas desea. Naturalmente esto solo tomará efecto larga que la pantalla. .TP .B PONYSAY_FULL_WIDTH -Puede exportar \fIPONYSAY_FULL_WIDTH\fP con el valor \fIno\fP, \fIn\fP o \fI0\fP, si usted +Puede exportar \fIPONYSAY_FULL_WIDTH\fP con el valor \fIyes\fP, \fIy\fP o \fI1\fP, si usted no desea que la salida sea truncada para que calce en la terminal. .TP .B PONYSAY_TRUNCATE_HEIGHT -- cgit