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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > > --------------------------------------
> > > http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/rtf.txt
> > > --------------------------------------
> >
> > You got it!  Thanks.
>
> Yes, that appears to be the correct URL. But I still get a 403 error
> when I attempt to view it. When you access it with a web browser, does
> it work for you?
>
> David

That file and at least two others gave me 403 error until I did a
chmod +r *
on the whole directory.  I had copied them from the internet so why 
would they not be generally readable?

I really need to be translating in linux (with pico/keybindings) or 
abiword because some idiot has now set the latest scanner software to use 
150 dpi and 8-bit color as default and in addition to making 1MB pages 
instead of 50K (mono at 300 dpi) it does not print out legibly or convert 
to pbm legibly.  (Lots of black dots sprinkled around).  So I am stuck 
translating from the screen, which in DOS would mean using two computers 
side by side.  In linux it could be two windows (with a lot of scrolling) 
or two workspaces.

I have two monitors but the graphical stuff (zgv or X) disappears from the 
VGA when I switch to the TTL to type text.  And even with splitvt zgv 
takes over the whole screen instead of its own window.

I need to translate things in columns, which I usually do with tabs 
(because the MS WP51 filter does not handle column import).
\tab may work.  (Is there an HTML tab?).

10 keybindings will be enough for bold on/off, underline on/off, 
tab, line break, page break, center on/off.  I can type in super and 
subscripts or doublespace, etc.

There are probably also keybindings for non-X terminals.

Abiword fonts are more legible at 1280 full-screen fit-to-page-width (I 
can deal with the 8-bit color from 2MB video RAM) but on my fastest 
computer there is still a delay between typing and seeing a word.
And now when I switched VTs Xvesa crashed.  At 1024 the fonts are scrawny 
and hard to read.