From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 20 22:26:43 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D1A5106566C for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:26:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF2878FC15 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:26:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C2785E8070A; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:26:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:26:41 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Warren Block Message-ID: <20110220222641.GA11532@thought.org> References: <20110219233736.GA20393@thought.org> <20110219235240.GA2495@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20110220002300.GA21231@thought.org> <20110220085158.GB30569@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: variable line-display pager? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:26:43 -0000 On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:26:32AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: > > >On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:28:07PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > >>On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Gary Kline wrote: > >> > >>>Zank you, Sir Chip.. Anybody else? I'm loathe to use anything gui, > >>>but here's where I'll be happy w ith something GUI THat i can > >>>squeeze my "15" or small-n lines' worth into. > >> > >>xterm -geometry 80x18 -e 'less -N /var/log/Xorg.0.log' > >> > >>Why 18 to get 15 lines? One line for the less prompt, maybe two for > >>the title bar on my system. > > > > > > EGAD! Did I _really_ type 80x18? I *,EANT* 80x48 which is the > > size of my Konsoles. Some reason, do not know, my mind gets > > Way ahead of my fingers. > > You didn't, I did. An 80x18 geometry xterm provides 16 lines of > text, one for the less prompt. My real aim is to have espeak | aplay running backgrounded and then have the text displayed in bite-sized chunks. The user can thus have some huge and maybe boring text Read me him and follow with his eyesight. My espeak script uses the MBROLA voice[s]. These are good but not perfect. Thus the more/less of the text. A fellow engineer in his mid-70's came over to check out my project. This guy is HOH and his hearing is slowly getting worse. That meant having to adjust the pitch and volume of the espeak voice. What I can hear clearly this guy heard as a jumble of mumbles. ---So one thing I've got to do is, after typing vim ~/tmp/sentence1, and playing it is save it away and have it easily available for replay after I have adjusted the pitch, speech, and other tweaks. I'd like to save between 3 and 5 sentences so that I don't have to retype the entire thing. Maybe use the arrow keys to go back to the last mid-understood sentence. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org