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-- ReadManiac ---

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A library in the pocket

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Version 2.0
Copyright (C) 2003 by Roman Lut.


This is a help file for ReadManiac.
Press SELECT key to access main menu.

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Contents

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1. Introduction

2. Reading text

3. Menu

3.1. File menu

3.2. Options menu

3.3. Fonts menu

3.3.1. User font installation

3.4. Formatting menu

3.5. Codepage menu

3.6. Layout menu

3.8. Bookmarks menu

3.9. Slide show


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1. Introduction.

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 With this midlet you can read large text files on all Siemens 
and Nokia java-enabled phones. 

Midlet has the following features: 

- Text file size is limited only by available space on MMC card(sl45i,S65) 
  or storage memory;

- ReadManiac comes with 5 small fonts for comfortable reading on small 
  phone screen;

- Program has powerfull options for text formating, allowing to use  
  small phone screen in full;
  
- ReadManiac can download new books from internet - and this makes it 
  a true library in the pocket;

- supported formats: txt, zip, pdb, prc and tcr;

- User can install its own fonts;

- has bookmarks, search and other usefull features.


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2. Reading text

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   Turn pages with "Up", "Down", "8", "0" and "Volume Up/Down" keys. 
   Access statistic with "5" key. 
   Search and search next with "4" key.
   Turn on Slide Show with "1","2" and "3" keys.
   Add time to curent page with "7" key.
   Press "6" to goto specified page.

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3. Menu

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   When reading text, press SELECT key to access main menu, or
CANCEL key to acess Bookmarks menu. 
   Navigate menu with Up and Down keys. Select menu item with SELECT 
key or pick up button; cancel with CANCEL key or hold button. 
   By default, top label on the right part of menu screen shows an action for
SELECT key, and bottom label - for CANCEL key.

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3.1. File menu

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   File menu has "Open...", "Get HTTP...", "Find book..." items 
and a list of files. If there is no required file in the list, 
choose "Open.." and enter file name directly. ".txt/.pdb/.prc/.tcr/.zip" 
extensions can be skiped. 
 Note, that due to technical limitations, midlet can not browse 
directories on some phones. In this case, only a list of 
recenlty opened files is shown.

 Search for books with "Find book..." menu item. Once you enter keywords
(Author or book title), midlet will contact dedicated web service and
download list of links matching your request. After that you can select
any link and download it with "Get HTTP..." menu item. Seach engine
contains links to thouthands of books !

  When you choose "Get HTTP..." option, ReadManiac shows URL input screen
and searches for URL names on the current page (or first page if there is 
no URLs on current page). You can access multiple URL names by pressing 
left menu key. This feature makes file downloading very easy, 
because you can create simple index file with list of URLs and book names, 
and than download books in just a few key presses. Note, that you must 
configure your phone internet settings for Java applications.
  While downloading, ReadManiac removes all HTML tags, so even general
HTML pages are readable.

 If you need more free space, select file and press "1" key to erase it. 

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3.2. Options menu

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 Here you can change font, text formating rules, file encoding, layout 
and the following options:

Light - force back light always on;

Sleep - a period of inactivity (minutes) to pass before midlet exits. This
will prevent complelete discharge of phone battery if you left phone
with midlet running on it;

Eye guard - a period of time to pass before midlet asks you to take a break.
Reading with small fonts for a long time can cause headache and eyesight 
problems. ReadManiac will vibrate and show a message every time this
perriod passes (You don't want to wear a glasses, isn't you ?).

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3.3. Fonts menu

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 Here you can select from 4 standard fonts, 5 build-in fonts,
up to 10 user-installed fonts, and also change the following options:
  Accents - disable or enable accented characters.
  UpperCase - convert all letters to upper case.


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3.3.1. User font installation

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  ReadManiac comes with tool for converting Windows fonts to format, 
suitable for ReadManiac. On converting and installing fonts, please read 
documentaion for that  tool. 

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3.4. Formatting menu

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 Here you can change the following options:

Trim CR - remove subsequent line break;

Trim " " - remove subsequent spaces; 

Trim "-" - remove world breaks on line boundaries;

Wrap - wrap words on line boundaries (note that due to program simplicity, 
this will not always be grammatically correct);

XSpacing - insert spaces to fill by width;

YSpacing - amount of empty space to add between lines of text (in pixels).

Indent - indent paragraphs.

 All this options, except for the last,  should be "ON" for optimal 
usage of small screen space.


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3.5. Codepage menu

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 Here you can change CODEPAGE of file encoding. 


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3.6. Layout menu

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 There are four options here:

 Scroller - display scrooll bar on the text page;

 Status - display status bar at bottom of page;

 Border - add single pixel border to the left side of screen;

 Negative - negative page image (White pixels on black background). 


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3.7. Bookmarks menu

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 Here you can set up to 5 bookmarks. If bookmark is set, a "star" symbol
appears at the right side of it. 

 Additional options are:

Goto page... - jump to specified page;

Search... - search for specified string. Search is not case sensetive.
When string is found, select this option second time to continue
search for further occurances.

Furthest - jump to the furthest ever loaded page. This is usually means the
furthest page you read.

Note, that you can access Bookmarks menu directly with CANCEL key.

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3.8. Slide show

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 ReadManiac can turn pages automatically. Keys from 1 to 3 enable
"Slide show" mode with one of the four speeds. Speeds can be adjusted in 
"Slide show menu" - milliseconds per line.
Press any other key except arrows to turn off "Slide show" mode. 

 If you need additional time to finish reading curent page, 
press "7" to add more 3 seconds for current page's show period.



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Conclusion

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  If you have comments, ideas or find bugs in this software, please submit 
them on the following page:
 
http://www.deep-shadows.com/hax/ReadManiac.htm


Roman Lut
hax@deep-shadows.com
http://www.deep-shadows.com/hax/

