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CURSIVE(6)                  DragonFly Games Manual                  CURSIVE(6)

NAME
       cursive - print text in cursive script

SYNOPSIS
       cursive [ -in ] [ -tn ] [message]

DESCRIPTION
       Cursive prints a line of text in a rather crude cursive script.  It is
       intended for use mainly for the generation of decorative signatures for
       electronic mail.  If message text is given on the command line, that
       text is used.  Otherwise the text will be read from standard input up
       to an end of file.  The -i option sets the minimum spacing between
       adjacent characters.  The default is -i1 .  The -t option sets the
       length of the trailing lines on the end of each word.  The default is
       -t1 .

       The '_' character is treated in a special way.  It may be inserted in
       the text anywhere you wish to lengthen a connecting line between two
       letters.

BUGS
       Many ASCII characters are not defined, notably the numbers and symbols.
       Punctuation is mostly available.  Some characters are rather ugly.  The
       author has lousy handwriting.

AUTHOR
       Jan Wolter.  UUCP mail to janc@crim.eecs.umich.edu

COPYRIGHT
       This program and the cursive font it generates are copyrighted by Jan
       Wolter.  Both may be freely used and distributed in any way whatsoever,
       so long as the author's name is left in the source code and
       documentation.

3rd Berkeley Distribution        24 July 1985                       CURSIVE(6)