.TH MARQUEE 1
.SH NAME
marquee \- display text nicely
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B marquee
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
.I Marquee
reads its standard input and displays the text it finds in a large
font on a colored background. It uses
.IR wordwrap (2)
to wrap the input at word boundaries and will re-wrap if the
window is resized.
If there is too much input to fit in the window, it will write off the bottom.
.PP
.I Marquee
runs both on Plan 9 and on Unix, using plan9port,
Under unix it will use
.IR fontsrv (4)
to use a nicer system font.
It detects unix by looking for the
.I service
environment variable either being blank or set to
.LR unix .
.SH SOURCE
.B http://a.9srv.net/src/marquee.c
.SH SEE ALSO
.PP
.IR litclock (1),
.IR wordwrap (2)
.SH BUGS
.PP
It should be possible to change the initial message.
.PP
There is no fallback mechanism for characters in the input text
which aren't in the display font.
.PP
It should be possible to set the color and possibly the margin.
.PP
Tabs in the input are just rendered as a single space.