cmml-fortune(6)

cmml-fortune6

Generates a random valid cmml instance document.

Usage

cmml-fortune [{-d timespec | --duration timespec}] [{-e encoding | --encoding encoding}] [{-o filename | --output filename}] [{-s command | --short-command command}] [{-l command | --long-command command}] [{-h | --help}] [{-v | --version}]

Overview

cmml-fortune generates a random CMML document using an external program to provide text for the document title, anchors and clip descriptions. The default behavior of cmml-fortune is to use fortune for this purpose.

Options

cmml-fortune accepts the following options:

-d timespec, --duration timespec

Specify the duration of the generated CMML document as a standard timespec, eg. "00:10", "smpte:00:01:30.3"

-e encoding, --encoding encoding

Specify an alternate encoding for the generated CMML document.

-o filename, --output filename

Write the generated CMML document to the specified filename instead of printing it to standard output.

-s short-command, --short-command command

Specify an alternate command to use to generate short text. This is used to generate the document title, and also to generate the anchor text of each clip.

-l long-command, --long-command command

Specify an alternate command to use to generate long text. This is used to generate the descriptions for each clip.

-h, --help

Display usage information and exit.

-v, --verbose

Display version information and exit.

Version

This man page is correct for CMML version 2.1 and libcmml version 0.9.4.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0

From cmml-tools 0.9.4-1 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.