VR3A

VR3a - A Vertical Text Reader for the Psion S3a Version 1.00, January 1994 Copyright (c) 1994 Robert Boucher <boucher@asimov.ocunix.on.ca> <boucher@sofkin.ca> 1. Installation. a. Create a toplevel directory called "\VR3A" and "\TXT" VR3A will contain VR specific files, for now this is only for the vertical fonts. TXT is where the text files to be read should go. b. Copy "*.FON" files into "\VR3A". c. Copy VR3A.OPA to the "\APP" directory d. Install the application via Psion-I e. Thats it! 2. Text files. Copy the text files to be read in "\TXT". If the extension is something other than ".TXT", the file will not show up in the VR3A file list. 3. Usage. See the file VR3A.DOC. Many kudos to Gilles Kohl to allow me to use his documentation. 4. Feedback If you use this application, please drop me a note. Bug reports (with fixes) and suggestions should be addressed to me. Any comments are welcome. I follow the traffic in comp.sys.psion. 5. Registration and License There are no registration required for this application, however, if you do wish to contribute something, you can donate at least $10 to Project Gutenberg. You can contact them at <dircompg@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> for details on how this can be done. Project Gutenberg was initiated by Prof. Michael S. Hart. Their goal is to make a maximum of free electronic texts available to everybody (see VR3A.DOC for their FTP site). This program is released under the GNU General Public License, Version 2, a copy of which should be in this directory under the name LICENSE.GPL. The routine named PARSE$:() is copyrighted by Mark Esposito, Pelican Software, it is available on the Psion FTP archive. 6. Acknowledgements. Gilles Kohl <100114.3146@compuserve.com> develops and maintains the vertical reader 'VR' for the HP95LX/HP100LX palmtops. VR3a attempts to mimic his implementation (with permission) as best as it can under OPL. Only the look-and-feel was borrowed - the implementation is completely new. He also allowed me to use his vertical fonts and his documentation. The VR3A icon was created from one of the icons from the utility "IconBox" version 1.00 from Right Hand Software Ltd and the text was added with Roger Burton-West's <ubte30e@ucl.ac.uk> EIKON v0.94 icon editor 7. TO DOs. 1. Dynamic configuration - especially for customizing font availability 2. Support for Proportional Fonts 3. ***Speed improvements*** 4. Replace MENU and DIALOGs with vertical ones so you do not have to flip the Psion all the time.