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ttuuxxx

Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 11240 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia
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Posted: Sun 20 Jul 2008, 08:28 Post subject:
WordGrinder tiny word processor Terminal 297KB |
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"WordGrinder is a simple, Unicode-aware word processor that runs in a terminal. It supports basic paragraph styles, character styles, just enough screen markup to be useful, and is driven via an easy to use menu interface. "
Ok well I was bored and wanted to see something I haven't seen before. A terminal word processor, well i guess it would be ok for people who have one-bone puppy linux, or something, I even made a menu listing and used the "Grub worm" for the icon lol
Anyways enjoy and if anybody actually like this program please send a line or 2.
thanks
ttuuxxx
to start it type wordgrinder2 in a terminal or use menu/document/wordgrinder
alt+downArrow to get the menu
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redandwhitestripes
Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 179
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Posted: Sun 22 Mar 2009, 23:23 Post subject:
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Used this on Crunchbang but never thought I'd be able to get it running in Puppy! Thanks so much!
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ttuuxxx

Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 11240 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia
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Posted: Sun 22 Mar 2009, 23:28 Post subject:
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redandwhitestripes wrote: | Used this on Crunchbang but never thought I'd be able to get it running in Puppy! Thanks so much! |
your welcome, glad you like it
Looks like more than I figured would of downloaded this application. Thats cool
ttuuxxx
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jakfish
Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 766
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Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 09:57 Post subject:
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This is great fun, many thanks for the pet. Too bad a use can't increase font size (tough to read on an eee) or at least go with a bold font to increase readability.
But it's a hoot to play with.
Jake
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ttuuxxx

Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 11240 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia
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Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 10:53 Post subject:
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jakfish wrote: | This is great fun, many thanks for the pet. Too bad a use can't increase font size (tough to read on an eee) or at least go with a bold font to increase readability.
But it's a hoot to play with.
Jake |
Hi Jake I coded in some a larger Font for you, its the second package
or use this link
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=16459
Ps with the code I added in located at /usr/bin/wordgrinder2 you can right click on it and open it as text, if find it too large and change
-font 10x20 to
-font 9x15 <--- smaller
ttuuxxx
Ps updated both packages so they they work on puppy 4.2 with the reversed rxvt colours.
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jakfish
Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 766
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Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 11:55 Post subject:
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Wow, that was fast. Much obliged again--it's FAR more readable on the eee. I'm trying to think of what use I can put this app to.
Thanks,
Jake
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ttuuxxx

Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 11240 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia
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Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 12:13 Post subject:
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jakfish wrote: | Wow, that was fast. Much obliged again--it's FAR more readable on the eee. I'm trying to think of what use I can put this app to.
Thanks,
Jake |
hey Jake if you like that one give me a day I have an idea I'm going to work out to do with the fonts etc .
ttuuxxx
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jakfish
Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 766
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Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 12:40 Post subject:
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You da man here. I don't know how difficult to re-position, but it is a little odd that the cursor places itself in the screen's middle, rather than the top (that may be a programer's favorite position, I wouldn't know--or else I'm doing something completely asinine upon start-up).
edit: on further thought, since there's no drop-down menu (the screen becomes the menu), maybe that's where the cursor must begin.
Jake
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ttuuxxx

Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 11240 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia
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Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 21:10 Post subject:
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jakfish wrote: | You da man here. I don't know how difficult to re-position, but it is a little odd that the cursor places itself in the screen's middle, rather than the top (that may be a programer's favorite position, I wouldn't know--or else I'm doing something completely asinine upon start-up).
edit: on further thought, since there's no drop-down menu (the screen becomes the menu), maybe that's where the cursor must begin.
Jake |
Ok here's a newer version that supports new text formats,lol
anyways install the pet, then install sakura, open sakura and right click on the desktop, set you font size, color etc. This will work with any command line application, Sakura is a great terminal, you can also change the font while running wordgrinder.
To Start:
Open Sakura and Just type wordgrinder and hit enter and it will start.
now right click on the screen and you'll have lots of sakura options
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jakfish
Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 766
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Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 21:40 Post subject:
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This is way-cool; I've never heard of Sakura before. I'm running wordgrinder on black background/white text/Arial bold. Looks better on the screen than OOO 3.0 or my Wine/MS Word 97
Nice that Sakura remembers your previous font choice. I may never use regular console again.
Jake
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ttuuxxx

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Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 21:57 Post subject:
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Well if you like that jake have a look at the thread for it, I made it look like a C-64 once, lol Plus it does transparent backgrounds etc.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=202704#202704
ttuuxxx
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jakfish
Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 766
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Posted: Tue 24 Mar 2009, 16:17 Post subject:
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I've got these apps on the puppy_save file--the ultimate accolade
Thanks again,
Jake
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mcewanw
Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 3200
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Posted: Tue 24 Mar 2009, 16:59 Post subject:
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Sakura looks interesting and I'll give it a try sometime, though there are other ways of doing such magnification, even in the default Puppy terminals (I did some coding in the past to do that but I'll have to look that out). According to the info below, however, Sakura itself is (or was?) not as lightweight, in terms of process usage, as some terminal offerings.
The Debian forum thread at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467375 suggests that evilvte or lxterminal may also be worth looking at [extract follows]:
"I didn't upload it because the current version isn't good enough. It
takes more memory than other vte-based terminals because it doesn't
share a single process for multiple terminals.
. . .
Good work. I am still interested to see a really resource saving
terminal in Debian. I didn't upload sakura into debian becaure it's
useless if it's not really saving the resources.
Please have a look there is a fork called evilvte in debian which save
more resources. And another VTE-based terminal callled lxterminal saves
more"
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mcewanw
Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 3200
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Posted: Tue 24 Mar 2009, 17:14 Post subject:
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Might also be worth checking out http://lxde.org/ which is a lightweight desktop (uses Openbox window manager) from which lxterminal apparently comes. Parts/most of LXDE are used by Slitaz and TinyMe. See also the related threads:
pet of lxterminal: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=335579092&p=278512#278512
Boxpup (uses Openbox): http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=35767&search_id=335579092
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redandwhitestripes
Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 179
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Posted: Sat 05 Sep 2009, 06:40 Post subject:
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There's a new version of Wordgrinder out:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wordgrinder/files/wordgrinder/0.3.2/wordgrinder-0.3.2.tar.bz2/download
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