3 ken, b1ff, censor, chef, cockney, eleet, fudd, jethro, jibberish, jive, kraut, ky00te, newspeak, nyc, rasterman, spammer, studly, upside-down \- assorted text filters
7 newspeak < thesis.tex > newthesis.tex
9 eleet | wall # b1ff works well too
11 b1ff | bitchx | censor
13 All of these programs are filters to do all sorts of strange things to text.
14 No racial or societal slurs are intended. For amusement only.
16 All the filters read input from stdin, change it, and write the filtered
23 convert English on stdin to Mock Swedish on stdout
33 Runs text through a random selection of the rest of the filters, to make really
36 English into Cockney, featuring (dubious) rhyming
37 slang for a lot of computer terminology.
39 Generates text with a bad German accent.
41 This program places a very cute (and familiar to FurryMuck
42 fans) accent on any text file.
50 Makes text look like it came from the keyboard of Carsten Haitzler.
52 Turns honest text into something that is liable to be flagged as spam.
56 Flips text upside down. Stand on your head and squint to read the output.
58 .IP /usr/share/doc/filters/SAMPLES
59 Lists samples of the output of all the filters.
61 The eleet, upside-down, chef, b1ff, and censor filters were written by
62 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>. Daniel V Klein <dvk@lonewolf.com> wrote the
63 cockney, jive, and nyc filters. jibberish is by Raul Miller
64 <rdm@test.legislate.com>, jethro is by Duane Paulson
65 <ci922@cleveland.freenet.edu>, rasterman is by Zachary Beane, ken is by
66 Stephen K Mulrine <skm@eqsn.net>, newspeak is authored by Jamie Zawinski
67 <jwz@jwz.org>, studly is by Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon-computing.com>, and
68 kraut is by John Sparks.