Re: JavE mentioned in German computer magazine

"Philip Newton" <pne...@newton.digitalspace.net> wrote in message
news:n08...@4ax.com...
> The German computer magazine c't recently had a short article about JavE
> in a section where they give a quick review of half-a-dozen freeware and
> shareware programs each issue.
>
> If you have the magazine, it's on page 60 of issue 3/2002; there's also
> a short review on the web at
> http://www.heise.de/ct/shareware/default.shtml?prg=7063 . 7 readers
> voted on it and gave it an average of 4.5 out of 5 points. The
> "Softlink" (a special short number code listed with the article pointing
> to a page of links) takes you to
> http://www.heise.de/ct/02/03/links/060.shtml , which has a link to
> JavE's home page.

c't is a great magazine and JavE is a great editor .. thankyou Phillip.
I posted to the german group as well as I'm sure they would want to know this.

I set FUT to this group , but if you someone want to make a reply in german they
can FUT to the german group.

While we are on the subject of jave .. the link from c't made me see that almost
all the places where Markus have inserted ascii-art into his HTML something have
gone wrong and some lines have shifted.
It wouldn't look good if some of the c't reader saw this and didn't think the
program could output it's ascii correctly.

And while the subject is JavE let me just abuse this thread to express all my my
lastest thoughts and ideas about about JavE (except edgetracing imageconversion
as we are discussing this in another thread)

1) The faq page (it's new - go see it) have messed up tables .. looks odd.
- and on the page I think the link should be http://java.sun.com/j2se/ to the
Java Runtime Enviroment , as the 1.4 is in release candidate and will probably
release soon.
I tested Jave with it , and it seems to run fine , only that cursor seems to
blink way too fast, when you don't move the mouse.

2) Why are the keyboard shortcuts soo weird ?
I want CTRL + C , CTRL + V , CTRL + X and CTRL + A to work as they do normally
do
I mean CTRL + Numpad 3 ?? .. what is up with that .. the combo doesn't even work

Some sensible keycombo's please.

3) I have begun making the
 ___ ___ __ __ ___ _ _  _  ___ ___
( __| | | _) _| . ) | || ||_ _( __|
|___)___|_||__|_|_\_|_||_| |_||___)

figlet font, using JavE.
Through that work I have realised that it would be VERY helpful if you could
edit fonts already created - both by editing the kerning , smushing .. etc ..
options and also by working it in reverse having it print out all the chars into
the document so you could make refinements to the font , and then save it again
as a .flf

Also the figlet tools could use some option to override smushing , kerning and
fitting rules as the FIGlet font format specification. explains that FIGlet can
do this (or is it FIGwin ?)

oh wait .. there is a chart .. i'll edit it to include JavE:

                                           FIGlet 2.2   FIGWIN 1.0   JavE 3.0
 Interpreting the Full_Layout parameter:     Yes          Yes           ?
 Universal smushing:                         Yes          Yes          Yes
 Supporting multi-byte input text formats:   Yes          No            ?
 Processing control files:                   Yes          No            ?
 Changing default smushing rules:            Yes          No           No
 Bundled with a GUI editor of FIGfonts:      No           Yes          Yes
 Vertical fitting and smushing:              No           Yes           ?

It would also be great if it could print vertically and override the direction
of printing.

4)
The help from figlet exporttool opens docs/./figletexport/figletexport.html and
not docs/figletexport/figletexport.html where the actual file is .. the result
is just a command prompt and not the help file as expected.

Hmm .. none of the help links seem to work for me .. the all open the command
prompt .. even with the correct path.


I'll rest for now .. you KNOW i have more for you Markus ;)
- CeeJay

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