man tart-custom (Formats) - Template format for LinuxTaRT

NAME

custom - Template format for LinuxTaRT

DESCRIPTION

LinuxTaRT can use a user defined template file to generate the signature. The name and location of this file can be specified in ~/.tartrc, but defaults to the following location:

~/.tart-custom

PARAMETERS

LinuxTaRT recognizes the following directives in the template and replaces them with the corresponding values:

%c1 - CustomText1 from .tartrc
%c2 - CustomText2 from .tartrc
%tg - tagline
Randomly selected from the tagline database.
%hr - horizontal line
%dt - todays date
In the format: Monday, February 25, 2002
%12 - current hour
12-hour format
%24 - current hour
24-hour format
%mn - current minutes
%ap - AM / PM
%ut - system uptime
For RiscOS or systems with the sysinfo function.
%ib - time in ibeats
%vi - LinuxTaRT version string
%% - the percent symbol (%)

Any other characters in the template are copied to the signature as is.

EXAMPLES

The following template:

LinuxTaRT - The Automatic Random Tagline

%hr

/dev/random says:

%tg

http://mvgrafx.dyn.ca/~vmark/LT

%hr

Generates the following signature:

LinuxTaRT - The Automatic Random Tagline

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/dev/random says:

Best way to dispose of the Borg: Give them Windows 3.1.

http://mvgrafx.dyn.ca/~vmark/LT

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FILES

~/.tart-custom

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