boustrophedon text reader
Project homepage: http://web.archive.org/web/20181215124207/http://traevoli.com/boust/
Description
Boustrophedon is a reading-/writing-style that alternates direction
every line. It was originally created by the ancient Greeks. Once one
gets good at reading the 'backwards' text, reading (and writing) can
go much faster, as the eye (or hand) does not have to whip back to the
margin when the end of a line is reached. One simply goes down a line
and continues in the opposite direction.
In the case of a paragraph ending, the next paragraph should retain
the horizontal position, and (depending on which the text is closest
to: the center of the screen or the margin) continues in the same
direction, or continue in the opposite direction.
This program formats the text-files to be read in this manner.
Package information
- Ports path
- textproc/boust
- Package architecture
- *
- Maintainer
- Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net>
- Categories
- textproc, x11/tk, lang/tcl
- Available flavors
- None listed
Ports list build and test dependencies as well as runtime dependencies. pkg_add selects those needed for installation.
Direct dependencies
Runtime
- x11/tk/8.6 tk->=8.6,<8.7
- lang/tcl/8.6 tcl->=8.6,<8.7
OpenBSD README
This README contains unresolved ports variables; replace them before using its commands.
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| Running boust on OpenBSD
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The X11 fonts for boust have been installed to
${FONTDIR}
You must add them to your X11 font paths with the
following command:
xset +fp ${FONTDIR}
To enable this permanently when the X11 server is
started, add
FontPath "${FONTDIR}"
in the "Files" section of your xorg.conf file.