NAME

       gtans - Tangram game for X

SYNOPSIS

       gtans [no options]

DESCRIPTION

       Gtans  is a tangram game that runs in X. Tangram is a kind of puzzle game where the player has to arrange
       a set of pieces to match a given shape.

OPTIONS

            No command-line options
            Use the graphical interface to customize the program. See below.

USAGE

       move the pieces (known as tans) until they match the figure drawn on the right window.  You  must  always
       use the seven tans and they should not be laid on top of one another.

       To  move a tan, click and drag it with left mouse button, for rotation click AROUND it.  You can flip the
       selected tan by right-clicking. This is usefull for the parallelogram  tan  (all  positions  can  not  be
       reached by rotating only).

       If  you  are  a  beginner to Tangram you should try the first 10 figures.  The other ones are not sorted,
       some of them are very difficult (to my taste).

       When a figure has been solved the background color of the silhouette area changes. The solved figures are
       remembered by saving a status file in the user's directory (~/.gtans/afile.figures.status  for  a  figure
       file called afile.figures)

       Show a tan This button shows the position of a tan. Each further click will display an other tan.

       Show outline Draw the figure in the main area. This makes the game much easier.

       Preferences  Most  of  this  menu's options allow you to change the colors used by the game. For the main
       area you may choose textures (pixmap files) instead of colors. Some sample files are  supplied  (I  can't
       remember  where  I  found them) but as the complete pathname is saved in the config file you can choose a
       file located anywhere (for example in /usr/share/pixmaps/). On a 8 bits display the  colors  may  not  be
       exactly what you want (GTK tries to find the best matching color).

       Preferences/Tans  size/Increase  Makes the tans 5 % bigger relatively to the game area. If you resize the
       window the tans size will be scaled.

       Preferences/Tans size/Decrease Makes the tans 4.76 % smaller

       Preferences/Accuracy Changes the precision of the comparison between the tans position and the  solution.
       A lower accuracy makes the game more easy.

       Preferences/Rotation Step by step allows only rotation by increment of 11.5 degrees.  Continuous rotation
       makes  the  game  more difficult and you probably shouldn't use it unless you really dislike step by step
       rotation.

       Preferences/Figures file Allows you to choose another figures file.

       Preferences/Save config Save a config file in the user's home directory.

       Misc/Clear figure status Set the current figure as unsolved.

       Misc/Clear all figures status Set all the loaded figures (i.e. from the current figure file) as unsolved.

FILES

            ~/.gtans/.gtansrc           Configuration options for gtans.  All of  these options can be set  from
       the interface, there should be no need to edit this file.

            ~/.gtans/somename.figures.status              Status  files  (for  each figures file the user played
       with) remenbering which figures where solved.

SEE ALSO

            The  gtans   homepage   at   <http://gtans.sourceforge.net/>.         Additional   information   and
       documentation can also be found in /usr/share/doc/gtans/ .

AUTHOR

       The author of gtans is Philippe Banwarth <bwt@users.sourceforge.net>

                                                  February 2000                                         gtans(6)