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88 888 88 888 888 88 888 88
888 888oooo88 888
888 888 888 888
o888o o888ooo888 o888o

Time Based Text v1.1

http://tbt.dyne.org


Our objective here is to carry more information in written text.

The solution proposed: record performance time in text and vehicle it
as additional information.

Saving and reproducing every single action during the composition of a
text let us vehicle emphasis in written communication.

As this simple concept, our implementation is also kept very
minimalistic while we welcome programmers to embed it in communication
applications.

The basic implementation is written in thread-safe POSIX C++ and can
be ported to most platforms. It is also included a graphical
implementation in python-GTK. Please refer to the manual for more
information.



::::: COMPILE THE SOURCE

If you have a sane GNU/GCC compile environment[*] cd into the
sourcecode directory and type:

$ make

requirements are:

- C++ compiler (g++)
- S-Lang libraries (text console handling) (libslang2-dev or so)

[*] GNU/Linux, BSD, Apple/OSX with XCode, CygWin with GCC




::::: VISIONS (so far)

- Mail client plugin (editor and viewer)
- ASCII Art, Poetry, Empathy
- TeleText (the next generation)
- Educational purposes
- Multipurpose granular time based protocol

TBT is used in an on-site interactive art installation
If interested, please don't hesitate to contact us.

::::: PROTOCOL

In the .tbt format, text is saved with a timestamp for each letter:

_________ ___________
| u-int | u-int |
| 64bit | 64bit | m-seconds = 1/1000 of a second
--------- -----------
| char | m-seconds | char = ASCII or higher bit char code
--------- -----------
| Total: 128bit |
---------------------

Input is captured from the console, but can be extended to intercept
any application using some h4x0r keylogging technique on different OS.

Export functionality to different formats is provided, including
generation of web-ready code in HTML and Javascript.


:::: TODO

In case of a multipurpose protocol for tagging time based events of
variable size and type, we should introduce the use of a header. This
might also help distinguishing among different key code maps. With
0.7 development reached a sufficiently advanced status, following some
more debugging it will be tagged as 1.0 - so basically the change of
the protocol will be an aim for the development of TBT 2.0 .



::::: DISCLAIMER

TBT - Time Based Text is Copyright (C) 2006 - 2012 by Jaromil


This source code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.

This source code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Please refer to
the GNU Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Public License along with
this source code; if not, write to: Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Distributed code includes contributions by:
JoDi, Angelo Failla, Pablo Martines, Robin Gareus and Meinhard Benn
please refer to the included AUTHORS file for complete information.

Artwork commissioned by the Impakt.nl festival.