1. Me again :)
Hi again,dear Euphoria programmers.
First of all, I'd like to thank you ALL for the nice welcome to your list.
It's realy nice. Thank you very much for it.
Ok,lets move on. About couple weeks ago, I planned to release a little
electronic magazine (but realy little) about misc subjects. The planned size
of the magazine (on TP compiled and without the musics) was about 300Kb. I
also planned to insert into it some nice BIOS scrollings for a smooth scrool
of the text.
Now,when I met Euphoria and you,I think to give it a try, and make the
magazine on Euphoria language.
Now I have lots of dilemas. Like how to make the magazine's editor - generic
or manually. I mean - for generic, I'll make a script or something,with all
the information about the menus,the text file to insert, the colors and etc.
and then to "compile" it to one executable file. The manual version is a .ex
program, that will include the menus, the text file calling and etc. In the
generic version, all I've to do, is to edit the textfiles (the articles),
edit the "script" and compile the script somehow. With the manual version, I
almost have to rewrite the .ex file for making the magazine.
Which one you advice me to make? How to make it? (some tips,and if you have
some free time, and if you want, send me an e-mail of yours, so I could send
you some questions personally...I'll realy appreciate it.)
Is it better to make the DataBase of the magazine,the way it works and all
the routines - on Euphoria , or it's better on Pascal? (I don't know
Euphoria's limits,the way it's working and etc. Sorry :)
Another question is, are there any libraries of routines for Euphoria like
SWAG for turbo pascal?
What do you it's better (be realy objective :) - to print the manuals on a
InkJET printer or buy the mannuals from the programmers (I live overseas and
it will cost me $10 for shipping). Also count the quality of the printings
and etc.
Ok,ok, I promise, a last question :)
What are the differences between the free and the registered versions? Do
you advice me to buy it (I'm a newbie and don't realy sure I'll stay on the
lang)
Ok. I think that's all for now. :)
P.S. The game someone posted me (ozbetasomething) is realy cute,but it's
controls was are horroble (sorry for saying that). Why can't make the game
simplier and control it with the arrows and the enter for fire or something.
Anyway, the CTRL and ALT and SHIFTS controls are realy not compotable.
Thank you very very much for your time.
Bye bye!
Izchak Aronov.
2. Re: Me again :)
- Posted by Mind Ventures <mventure at IO.COM>
Jan 15, 1997
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Last edited Jan 16, 1997
Hi Izchak!
If your magazine is going to be a recurring project, it would probably be
best if you made a generic reader or compiler of sorts that opens a data
file and inputs the appropriate information for customizing each new
issue. From a logical perspective, it will take longer to set up the
first one but you'll save time in the long run over multiple issues. I
would think editing an *.ex file with embedded text articles would be
a pain.
If you decide to do it generic, you could embed control codes within
your document for things like fonts and formatting then parse the file
to find the codes as the information is displayed. If you decide to
go this route, I'd suggest making your formatting commands compatible
or similar to HTML. That way if you decide to distribute your "reader"
code, people will be able to pick up on the coding scheme quicker than
if you use your own unique system. I would think features like tables
and inline graphics would be desirable for a periodical.
Good luck,
Chuck
3. Re: Me again :)
> Ok,lets move on. About couple weeks ago, I planned to release a little
> electronic magazine (but realy little) about misc subjects. The planned size
> of the magazine (on TP compiled and without the musics) was about 300Kb. I
> also planned to insert into it some nice BIOS scrollings for a smooth scrool
> of the text.
> Now,when I met Euphoria and you,I think to give it a try, and make the
> magazine on Euphoria language.
> Now I have lots of dilemas. Like how to make the magazine's editor - generic
> or manually. I mean - for generic, I'll make a script or something,with all
> the information about the menus,the text file to insert, the colors and etc.
> and then to "compile" it to one executable file. The manual version is a .ex
> program, that will include the menus, the text file calling and etc. In the
> generic version, all I've to do, is to edit the textfiles (the articles),
> edit the "script" and compile the script somehow. With the manual version, I
> almost have to rewrite the .ex file for making the magazine.
> Which one you advice me to make? How to make it? (some tips,and if you have
> some free time, and if you want, send me an e-mail of yours, so I could send
> you some questions personally...I'll realy appreciate it.)
i'm doing somethings somewhat similar... i would recommend a script
file for the menus and text and colours and that with an .ex file to
do all the routines... what i did was in the script file, it was
normal text, but the ; (semi-colon) was a special character so
whenever it encountered a semi-colon it would look to the characters
right after that to see what to do... for example, ;c04,06 might
change the colour to foreground colour 4 and background colour 6 and
(in my program) ;B and ;b would turn the 'bold' on and off... just a
though :>
4. Re: Me again :)
Izchak,
Take a look at a shareware program called Neobook, it's specially designed for
this purpose, I'm not sure if you have a web access but it's at:
http://www.neosoftware.com/~neosft/
with an example project at: http://www.sliceoflife.com/Official/SharePaper/
You can also access this software at the SimTel archives:
in Israel: ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/simtelnet
Directory simtelnet/msdos/deskpub/
Filename Type Length Date Description
nb21d.zip B 636128 960522 NeoBook v2.1d: Multimedia authoring system
Directory simtelnet/msdos/hypertxt/
nbp21h.zip B 718113 960606 NeoBook Pro: Electronic publishing/authoring
But coding the project in html would be the most compact option, I guess.
Also, if the magazine is to in some another language than English, I would go
for some path inside the Windows environment.
Regards, Einar .is
