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| author | giraffedata <giraffedata@9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8> | 2020-05-06 22:28:25 +0000 |
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| committer | giraffedata <giraffedata@9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8> | 2020-05-06 22:28:25 +0000 |
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diff --git a/pbmtext.html b/pbmtext.html index 3334464a..570b18cb 100644 --- a/pbmtext.html +++ b/pbmtext.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Pbmtext User Manual</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY> <H1>pbmtext</H1> -Updated: 01 December 2018 +Updated: 06 May 2020 <BR> <A HREF="#index">Table Of Contents</A> @@ -41,10 +41,19 @@ into a PBM graphical image. by spaces, except that if there are no non-option command line arguments, it is Standard Input. -<P>In the image, each line of input is a line of output. Formatting -characters such as newline have no effect on the formatting; like any -unprintable character, they turn into spaces. - +<P>In the image, each line of input is a line of output. Lines are + delimited by newline characters. + +<p>The program renders any character in an input line that is not in the font + as a space. Note that control characters usually aren't in the font, but + some fonts have glyphs for them. The newline characters that delimit lines + in of Standard Input are not in any line. + +<p>Tab characters are rendered as a number of spaces; any entry in the font + for the tab code point is irrelevant. The number of spaces is such as to + create tab stops every 8 characters. Note that this is not useful if the + font is proportional. + <P>The image is just wide enough for the longest line of text, plus margins, and just high enough to contain the lines of text, plus margins. |