🎬 TAS File (Text Advance Subtitle)

TAS File is a lightweight and flexible Node.js package that allows you to create and read .tas (Text Advance Subtitle) files for use in video subtitling. It supports advanced text formatting such as bold, italic, underline, and positioning.

📦 Installation

npm install tas-file

🚀 Usage

Example: Create a .tas Subtitle File

const createTASFile = require('tas-file');

createTASFile({
  title: "Demo TAS Subtitle",
  style: {
    Fontsize: 24,
    Color: 'blue',
    Bold: true,
    Italic: false,
    Underline: true
  },
  subtitles: [
    {
      start: "00:00:00.000",
      end: "00:00:10.000",
      text: "Hello, this is the first subtitle."
    },
    {
      start: "00:00:10.000",
      end: "00:00:20.000",
      text: "{\\i}Italic subtitle{/i}"
    },
    {
      start: "00:00:20.000",
      end: "00:00:30.000",
      text: "{\\u}Underline subtitle{/u}"
    },
    {
      start: "00:00:30.000",
      end: "00:00:40.000",
      text: "{\\b}Bold subtitle{/b}"
    }
  ]
}, 'output.tas');

The output will be saved as output.tas in your current directory.

🎨 Style Configuration

You can set global styles for your .tas file using the following properties:

| Property | Description | Example | | ----------- | --------------- | ---------------- | | Fontsize | Font size | 20, 24, etc. | | Color | Font color | red, blue | | Bold | Bold text | true / false | | Italic | Italic text | true / false | | Underline | Underlined text | true / false |

🔣 Inline Text Formatting Tags

You can apply inline styles using formatting tags inside the text field:

| Tag | Meaning | | ---------------- | --------------- | | {\\i}...{/i} | Italic text | | {\\b}...{/b} | Bold text | | {\\u}...{/u} | Underlined text | | {\\on}...{/on} | Top center | | {\\un}...{/un} | Bottom center | | {\\lf}...{/lf} | Left center | | {\\rt}...{/rt} | Right center | | {\\ul}...{/ul} | Bottom left | | {\\ur}...{/ur} | Bottom right | | {\\ol}...{/ol} | Top left | | {\\or}...{/or} | Top right |

You can combine tags with \n for multiline effects:

text: "{\\i}This is italic line 1{/i}\nLine 2 continues here."

📁 File Format (Generated .tas File)

Here is an example structure of the generated .tas file:

TAS
[Script Info]
Info: This is a Text Advance Subtitle script.
Title: Demo TAS Subtitle
ScriptType: 1.0+

[Ver1 Styles]
Format: Fontsize, Color, Bold, Italic, Underline
Style: Default, 24, blue, true, false, true

[Script]
1. 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.000,,Hello, this is the first subtitle.
2. 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:20.000,,{\i}Italic subtitle{/i}
3. 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:30.000,,{\u}Underline subtitle{/u}

🤝 Contributing

Want to improve this package? Pull requests and feedback are welcome!

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a new branch
3. Make your changes
4. Submit a pull request

👨‍💻 Author

Progamingsang

🔗 Repository

GitHub: https://github.com/Vienxamxi/TAS-file

📄 License

Copyright (c) 2025 by Vienxamxi

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