variable line-display pager?

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:44:10AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote:
> > Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 20 February 2011:
> > <snip>
> > > 
> > > 	Yes, this is much nicer that the more -15 that  messes up the
> > > 	text with it's [MORE...] white within black.  But here you can't
> > > 	just tap the spacebar; is there a way around that <cr> and
> > > 	turning it into a space...?
> > > 
> > > 	Also, can you insert 
> > > 
> > > 	"^+++"
> > > 
> > > 	text
> > > 
> > > 	"^+++"
> > > 
> > > 	top And bottom?  Pretty sure that the user would have the large
> > > 	font to read aloug with that espeak read to hijm.  Having the
> > > 	top/bottom delimiters might make scanning the text easier.  
> > > 
> > > 	(It messed up with more.
> > > 
> > > 	Anyway, thanks foe something that actually works, :_)
> > > 
> > > 	gary
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > >  Gary Kline  kline at 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
> > > 
> > Better?
> > 
> 	The code does what you tell it to.  It puts the +++ string
> 	before the output and following the EOF.  I was thinking of
> 	having:
> 
> 	+++
> 	15 lines of text
> 	+++
> 
> 	After espeak speaks these lines, the user hits the spacebar and
> 	another 
> 
> 	+++
> 	15 lines
> 	+++
> 
> 	until EOF.  I know zero ruby and am still learhnning python.
> 	Thanks much for getting me going with ruby!  FRom here on it is
> 	just logic, :_)
> 
> 	gary
> 
> 

I'm guessing you can see where to make that change, but let me know if
you need help.

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