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 Infernoptix - Digital Pyrotechnic Matrix
Five separate modes allow a variety of effects from the screen, as well as the ability to perform the on-the-fly tuning that is necessary with complex pyrotechnics.
Text mode features an additional function that allows you to push any key on the keyboard and have the screen display that character as long as the key is held.
This mode also includes a setting whereby the keys of the keyboard are made to correspond in a similar way to the pixels of the Infernoptix.
www.infernoptix.com /about.htm   (1241 words)

  
 CSS3 Text Module
Text wrapping and text overflow both deal with situation where the text reaches the flow after-edge of its containing box.
Text overflow allows the author to introduce a visual hint at the two ending boundaries of the text flow within the element box (after and end).
When a run of non-ideographic or numeric characters appears inside of ideographic text, a certain amount of space is often preferred on both sides of the non-ideographic text to separate it from the surrounding ideographic glyphs.
www.w3.org /TR/2003/CR-css3-text-20030514   (11000 words)

  
 Tribute to Text Mode Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Text mode was in fact capable of a wide range of graphical effects, as the games in this collection amply demonstrate.
text mode can only display text—that is, any symbol that can be produced by pressing a key on the keyboard (plus a few extras that we'll get to in a moment).
Text mode cannot be used to paint a picture, draw a pie chart, or display a scanned photograph.
www.textmodegames.com /articles/coolgame.html   (1256 words)

  
 text mode
TEXT MODE You are using TEXT MODE when you are typing in your message.
Exit from Text Mode by using the ESCAPE key or control-d.
You can start typing in Text Mode and then change to emacs; the message you typed so far will be placed into the emacs buffer.
www.columbia.edu /acis/email/mm.home/help/read.text-mode.html   (391 words)

  
 Text Mode - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Text Mode, in computer science, also called alphanumeric mode or character mode.
The mode of operation in which some computers display letters,...
Graphics Mode, on computers such as the IBM PC, the display mode in which lines and characters on the screen are drawn pixel by pixel.
encarta.msn.com /Text_Mode.html   (162 words)

  
 Text-mode editing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Text mode is very different from epcEdit's normal editing mode: In text mode, epcEdit does not distinguish data from markup and no structural editing rules are enforced.
After switching to text mode, the check mark to the left of the Text mode menu item in the View menu will be activated.
To simplify the distinction between data and markup even in text mode, epcEdit uses syntax highlighting to distinguish between text that might be considered markup and text that is data.
www.epcedit.com /UserManual/c2100.html   (237 words)

  
 Text Mode   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Text mode turns off the features concerned with comments except when you explicitly invoke them.
In this mode, you do not need to have blank lines between paragraphs, because the first-line indentation is sufficient to start a paragraph; however paragraphs in which every line is indented are not supported.
Emacs provides two other modes for editing text that is to be passed through a text formatter to produce fancy formatted printed output.
w3.pppl.gov /info/emacs/Text_Mode.html   (334 words)

  
 Text mode demos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Text Mode demos are real-time calculated computer animations which make use of the native text graphic mode(s) common on the IBM PC.
The Text Mode Demo Scene is one of many different facets of the demoscene.
Text Mode as a medium offers several unique challenges for the creators of such a demo.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Text_mode_demo   (301 words)

  
 guidod - mksite features - printerfriendly = printer / text mode version
That variant is recommended by WAI texts to help blind people to read the text with a text-to-speech machine or a braille terminal i.e.
The "go text:" is the replacment for the img-square of the first navigation line (for sections).
Note that our printerfriendly mode is clever enough to replace all hrefs in the header lines and the body text with hrefs to the "*.print.html" version generated.
zziplib.sourceforge.net /mksite/textmodeversion.html   (684 words)

  
 VGA/SVGA Video Programming--VGA Text Mode Operation
While it would seem that the text modes are adequately supported by the VGA BIOS, there is actually much that can be done with the VGA text modes that can only be accomplished by going directly to the hardware.
While this mode is not used as often these days, it used to be the predominant mode of operation for applications.
The reason that the text mode was fast, much faster than a graphics mode at the same resolution was that in text mode, the screen is partitioned into characters.
www.osdever.net /FreeVGA/vga/vgatext.htm   (1287 words)

  
 Editing Formatted Text
When you save a buffer while Enriched mode is enabled in it, Emacs automatically converts the text to text/enriched format while writing it into the file.
When editing formatted text, you can specify different amounts of indentation for the right or left margin of an entire paragraph or a part of a paragraph.
Justified text looks very nice in a printed book, where the spaces can all be adjusted equally, but it does not look as nice with a fixed-width font on the screen.
www.nongnu.org /emacsdoc-fr/manuel/formatted-text.html   (1968 words)

  
 Choosing a Text Mode (Samsung t209)
T9® predictive text mode allows you to type words with only one keystroke per letter, and the handset will interpret what word you want.
ABC mode allows you to type letters by pressing the key labeled with the letter you want until the correct letter displays.
ABC mode is a manual text mode that allows you to type letters by pressing the key labeled with the letter you want until the correct letter displays.
support.t-mobile.com /knowbase/root/public/tm50865.htm   (594 words)

  
 Text Mode - GNU Emacs Manual   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
When you edit files of text in a human language, it's more convenient to use Text mode rather than Fundamental mode.
Text mode, and all the modes based on it, define
Other major modes related to Text mode also run this hook, followed by hooks of their own; this includes Paragraph-Indent Text mode, Nroff mode, TeX mode, Outline mode, and Mail mode.
www.gnu.org /software/emacs/manual/html_node/Text-Mode.html   (250 words)

  
 2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup | Linux Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Initially, text mode was all there was, with the CERN Line Mode Browser (also called www).
The ever-present Lynx made the jump to full-screen text mode, as opposed to line-by-line, in late 1992.
Considering the speed and convenience text mode browsers offer, even over SSH connection from half a continent away, text mode browsing is supremely useful.
www.linuxjournal.com /article/8148   (2360 words)

  
 Choosing a Text Mode (Nokia 8801)
When you type text, the entry mode is indicated by an icon located at top left of the display.
There are two icons that indicate text mode (T9 or Manual) and four icons that indicate the text style (letter case style and number mode).
Manual mode allows you to type letters by pressing the key labeled with the letter you want until the correct letter displays.
support.t-mobile.com /knowbase/root/public/tm50817.htm   (639 words)

  
 Text mode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
S3) supported very large text modes, like 100×37 or even 160×120.
In Linux systems, a program called SVGATextMode was often used with SVGA cards to set up very large console text modes.
Text mode demos — computer animations generated in text mode
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Text_mode   (922 words)

  
 GNU Emacs Manual - The Organization of the Screen
You can subdivide the large text window horizontally or vertically into multiple text windows, each of which can be used for a different file (see section Multiple Windows).
The mode line displays status information such as what buffer is being displayed above it in the window, what major and minor modes are in use, and whether the buffer contains unsaved changes.
See section Optional Mode Line Features, for features that add other handy information to the mode line, such as the current column number of point, the current time, and whether new mail for you has arrived.
sunsite.univie.ac.at /textbooks/emacs/emacs_5.html   (2069 words)

  
 Text Mode User Interfaces
Because a minimal amount of RAM was needed to store the text as opposed to the larger amount needed to store graphics, and because manipulating the text characters was faster, this was a very optimal way to display video information at the time.
The problem with this kind of interface is that there are often thousands of commands, each with different options or parameters that must be specified as part of the command.
Text based applications can share many of the same visual elements as GUIs, such as buttons, pull down menus, mouse pointers, text boxes, list boxes, overlapping windows, and more.
toastytech.com /guis/text.html   (685 words)

  
 ZDO.COM - Articles - Creating text mode user interfaces with Perl
There are many other ways to create fancy text mode user interfaces with Perl using the off-the-shelf packages specialized for this purpose.
Reverse mode is just reverses the foreground and background of Normal mode, which provides a medium to highlight something on the screen, such as the currently selected menu item, etc.
Being able to relocate the cursor to a certain location at any time is one of the most important requirement while creating text mode user interfaces.
www.zdo.com /articles/creating_text_mode_user_interfaces_with_perl.php   (1027 words)

  
 ALT texts in IMG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
text is intended to be a suitable textual alternative to the purpose of the image: sometimes that might turn out to be a description of the image, but in practice that choice seems to be wrong far more often than it's right.
Plenty of authors seem to have reacted by using the ALT text to specify their desired tooltip text, regardless of the text being entirely inappropriate for use as the "alternative text" described in the HTML specifications.
texts, in themselves, would be harmful to web indexing, and it would indeed seem perverse (and would draw adverse comment in relation to accessibility) for one of them to do so.
ppewww.physics.gla.ac.uk /~flavell/alt/alt-text.html   (5696 words)

  
 What is text mode? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
A video mode in which a display screen is divided into rows and columns of boxes.
All video standards for the PC, including VGA, support a text mode that divides the screen into 25 rows and 80 columns.
In addition to text mode, most video adapters support a graphics mode, in which the display screen is divided into an array of pixels.
www.webopedia.com /TERM/v/text_mode.html   (101 words)

  
 How do I convert between Unix and Mac OS or Mac OS X text files? - Knowledge Base
When using Transmit to move a text file between Unix and Mac OS, be sure to transfer the file in ASCII mode.
When using Fetch to move a text file between Unix and Mac OS, be sure to transfer the file while Fetch is in Text mode.
mode is selected by default; in this mode, Fetch tries to determine whether a file is a binary or text file by looking up the extension of the file in its suffix mapping list.
kb.iu.edu /data/agiz.html   (921 words)

  
 WPDOS - Text Mode Survival Guide
If your computer cannot display full-screen mode, or if you want to experiment with different fonts, you can run WPDOS with software-based fonts in a window, but with a window that is almost the same size as the full screen.
If your text runs off the right edge of the screen in text mode, your margins are too narrow or the point size of your text is too small.
In WPDOS 6.x text mode, the left margin of the text sometimes displays a few spaces to the right of the edge of the screen.
www.columbia.edu /~em36/wpdos/textmode.html   (6995 words)

  
 Info Node: (emacs)Text   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The other meaning is more restrictive: a sequence of characters in a human language for humans to read (possibly after processing by a text formatter), as opposed to a program or commands for a program.
Outline mode provides special commands for operating on text with an outline structure.
Instead of using a text formatter, you can edit formatted text in WYSIWYG style ("what you see is what you get"), with Enriched mode.
www.cs.cmu.edu /cgi-bin/info2www?(emacs)Text   (277 words)

  
 netrik
There is a handful of different text mode browsers (lynx, w3m, and links being the most popular ones), but each of them is limited in some regard.
The first one is that a text mode browser runs almost everywhere, even in environments without a graphical mode.
In a text mode browser many flaws of web pages are obvious, which are hidden in NetscapeandCo., but could cause problems in other browsers.
netrik.sourceforge.net   (1978 words)

  
 5.3 vi TEXT EDITOR
You enter the text mode by keying either an i (insert) or an o (open).
In text mode you enter your text into a file.
You use the key (escape) to exit the text mode.
www.aspire.cs.uah.edu /textbook/unix5002.html   (654 words)

  
 GNU Emacs Manual - Text Mode   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Features concerned with comments in programs are turned off in Text mode except when explicitly invoked.
A similar variant mode is Indented Text mode, intended for editing text in which most lines are indented.
Other major modes related to Text mode also run this hook, followed by hooks of their own; this includes Nroff mode, TeX mode, Outline mode and Mail mode.
www.tau.ac.il /cc/pages/docs/emacso/node/emacs_184.html   (331 words)

  
 Introduction to the Vi Text Editor
In the latter mode, as its name implies, one issues commands, such as the ZZ above, which we issued to save the file and exit vi.
By far the most frequent problem new vi users have is that they forget they are in insert-text mode, and so their commands are not obeyed.
The same steps can be used to copy text, except that p must be used twice, the first time being immediately after Step 2 (to put back the text just deleted).
heather.cs.ucdavis.edu /~matloff/UnixAndC/Editors   (1073 words)

  
 Description of plain text mode in Outlook Express in Windows XP Service Pack 2
When Outlook Express runs in plain text mode, it uses the rich edit control instead of the MSHTML control.
Because plain text e-mail messages do not require that HTML headers to be displayed correctly, there is typically almost no visible difference from this change.
In Windows XP SP2, when you run Outlook Express in plain text mode, you cannot adjust the size of the message text, and you cannot perform a full-text search in the body of an e-mail message.
support.microsoft.com /kb/883257/en-us   (491 words)

  
 Outline Mode   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The screen appears exactly as if the invisible line were deleted, except that an ellipsis (three periods in a row) appears at the end of the previous visible line (only one ellipsis no matter how many invisible lines follow).
Outline minor mode provides the same commands as the major mode, Outline mode, but you can use it in conjunction with other major modes.
as the prefix; this is to reduce the conflicts with the major mode's special commands.
w3.pppl.gov /info/emacs/Outline_Mode.html   (232 words)

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