Terms of servers
Intro
Images
Process
links to pads and wiki pages
pink postit scan
Code
code tour
Things we didn't end up using
On our way towards the practical realization of the project we ran into multiple possible ways we could achieve presenting formatted text.
Initially we had though of using various text manipulating tools from the linux core tools:
- tr
- pr
- cut
- col
- sed
- printf
- ANSI escape codes (which make the file unreadable)
Afterwards, we ran into tpp (text presentation program), a ruby-ncurses presentation tool that works with files written with some special description synthax (ex. -title, -newpage). Working with tpp looks fun but it also does not seem to be the best for large quantities of text.(as presentation files become unreadable)
At the same time of this discovery, Joseph mentioned urwid, a python console user interface library for unix-like OSses. It allows for many possiblities like widgets for building custom TUI, animations, style support, but we also were struggling with making sense of the documentation.
ncurses tpp urwid pyboxen xdotool rich textualize
printing stack
What's next
terminal viewable application (pip) telnet own server ssh guest (arthur @ beubeu) own self host server