OpenEuphoria

1. Help: A First Program

• Posted by Jonathan Craft <jcchina at BIGFOOT.COM> Nov 08, 1999
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Hi EUPHORIA,

I'm new to Euphoria and to programming. I want to write a program and
need hints and ideas for how to do it. Following is a fairly long
explanation of what I'm trying to do. Here's the situation:

   ***I own a Rocket ebook, and I play guitar. I want to put a book of
   chorded songs in my ebook.

   ***Songs that you can download from the internet are in monospace
   format. I want to use the ebook's built-in proportional font
   because you can fit more on the screen (300 x 450 dpi).

   ***Due to limitations of the ebook, I can only use text, line
   breaks, and spaces (non-breaking spaces).  I want to write a
   program that converts the files from monospace to html format.

That's the basic problem I'm working on.  To make it clearer, here's
an example line in a text guitar chord file.

     D         AsusA Em7   G  D    -- a line of chords
     This is a line  in  a song,   -- the text of the song

I need to:
  *skip over the title (and any lines that don't have chords in them,
  like the second verses in the song).
  *find out how long a string is in a certain truetype font.
  *find out how much space (in length) to put in each line to line up
  the two lines.
  *check and break lines that are too long, while keeping the chords
  over the words.
  *replace spaces with " ".
  *save the file as an html file.

I know some of this is pretty basic. I also would like an editable
preview before the html conversion, so you can fix any spacing
mistakes.

Thanks for any hints or help that you can offer. I think this should
be a doable, but challenging first program in Euphoria.


 Jonathan                          mailto:jcchina at bigfoot.com