documenting the balloon extension

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Mattias Andrée 2012-11-01 02:45:00 +01:00
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Variables whose name begin with @code{balloon} are parsed as balloon inserts, it
can be either @code{balloon}, @code{balloonX}, @code{balloon,Y} or @code{balloonX,Y},
whether @code{X} is the minimum width of the balloon and @code{Y} is the minimum
height of the balloon.
height of the balloon. New in Ponysay 3.0 is that the @code{X} can also be an range
of columns, it contains of two numbers, the preferable start column, from the
column that variables is placedon, the other number is the minimum width of the
balloon. The two values are separated either by a @code{l}, a @code{r} or a @code{c}.
If @code{l} is used the the balloon is printed as normal, except that it if wrapping
is enabled and the balloon whould exceed the wrapping column, the balloon continues
to fill on its left, at most as much as the position value. If @code{r} is used, the
balloon fills the its left first and then to its right. If @code{c} is used the
balloon will try the fill on its left and right side equally.
Prior to version 2.1 the pony files were cow files used by @command{cowsay}, they
are partial Perl-scripts that assign a value to a scalar variable named