Re: Plucker integrated with PalmOS calendar?

2004-08-19 Thread Dave Maddock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | Can we maybe route this through PPI to avoid having to put into Plucker | a whole load of information on how to process different kinds of | information? Makes sense to me. Hacking on PPI is a little above my head at the moment, but if this were in p

Re: Plucker integrated with PalmOS calendar?

2004-08-18 Thread Dave Maddock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | I'm imagining a link in the viewer that, when clicked on, pops up | an appointment scheduling screen. If the screen is "OK"'d (perhaps | after editing), an appointment is added to the Calendar database. Sounds like an excellent idea! I'm willing to he

Re: lauchable (was RE: RE: Feature Request)

2004-04-22 Thread Dave Maddock
> > If I do this for documents on the VFS, will I need > > to move all of my books somewhere specific? > > > So you need to put it some place that the Palm looks > for programs. I'm not sure that the default launcher > looks anywhere on VFS, but there might be a specific > directory (or settings t

Re: annotation branch binary

2004-04-22 Thread Dave Maddock
> The binaries and source for the annotation branch are at: Thanks for these. > 1. I'd like to have a way of selecting a region for highlighting rather than > just one word. Definately agree. I like what you've done so far, but I probably wouldn't use annotations until this is possible and per-

Re: external bookmarks

2004-03-21 Thread Dave Maddock
> > > How do external bookmarks work? > > > > The way it is described in the Plucker format description ;-) > > Oh, so it's not a user-land feature? My viewer patch simply reads any external bookmarks and displays them in bold in the bookmark list. I don't think any of the parsers support it ye

Re: annotations

2004-03-09 Thread Dave Maddock
> > original document. One of the proposed uses was multiple > > commentaries on the same original document -- but those > > commentaries would all have to be merged at once, instead > > of just beaming (or synching) an extra commentary. > > I am thinking of this as primarily designed for notes ta

Re: plucker unicode patch

2004-03-07 Thread Dave Maddock
imode icons as glyphs in the font. Looking forward to testing this out when your patch for palmfontconv is available. -- Dave Maddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/list

Re: libraryform enhancements

2004-03-06 Thread Dave Maddock
> That's weird. It still works fine with jogdial, and I thought jogdial and > fiveway were handled similarly. I guess it's intercepting the fiveway > keystrokes. If so, it should be easy to fix. Actually, I'm having the same problem as Mike but using the jogdial on my NR. Dave. __

Re: plucker, fonthack, & unicode

2004-03-05 Thread Dave Maddock
> Unicode Greek? Or you mean, GreekKeys Greek? Oh, bummer. The Plucker document I was playing with was the Pluckerbooks Greek New Testament, which has a transliteration as the alternate representation for unicode characters. In messing with fonthack, the GreekKeys font was rendering the alterna

plucker, fonthack, & unicode

2004-03-05 Thread Dave Maddock
I don't know why I didn't play with fonthack before, but Plucker renders unicode greek nicely as is with fonthack and the fonts from PalmBible+. (sweet program btw, Alex).   http://dave.maddockfamily.org:81/fonthack.png   palmfontconv supports grayscale font creation for plucker and fonthack

Re: external bookmarks support (patch included)

2004-02-23 Thread Dave Maddock
guide issues in both bookmark.c and bookmarkform.c. I didn't even notice the guidelines file in the viewer directory. Mention of this in the READMEs and other docs would help the people like me who don't look in the obvious place first (or know to look) :-) -- Dave Maddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>

external bookmarks support (patch included)

2004-02-21 Thread Dave Maddock
is functionality was mentioned a while back in comparison to iSilo: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg04917.html Other obvious parser implementations could be bookmarking an outline via h1,h2,... tags, or any named Anchors & ids. -- Dave Maddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>

Re: Vade Vecum annotations

2004-02-19 Thread Dave Maddock
> How does Vade Mecum make annotions in the first place? Can you > do this on the PDA, does it need to happen before hotsync? I think the only current way is to create them on the PDA. There doesn't appear to be any conduit, etc., for pulling the annotations off the PDA either. > I think it mig

Re: plucker & unicode

2004-02-19 Thread Dave Maddock
> > How do we mishandle shift-jis? We just use the OS's multibyte functions, > > and we assume that a CJK-OS traps the OS's multibyte char access functions. > > > > in paragraph.c, line 1564, there is some conversion going on (seems like > parser puts raw SHIFT_JIS characters into the file, but cl

Re: Newbie question on annotation

2004-02-19 Thread Dave Maddock
> I'm using Vade Mecum to read plucker documents, and I like the > annotations and highlighting. My once-trusty visor edge died, so I > don't know if the official viewer does that or not. Nope, this is Vade Mecum specific. > I've looked at the Plucker DB Format, and it's not obvious to me how >

Re: proposal: exact anchors

2004-01-21 Thread Dave Maddock
> BTW, if you start supporting this for arbitrary places, you should also > support the id attribute, which allows any element to be used as a > destination for a > link. Or does Plucker already do this? The JPluck parser purports to (I haven't knowingly tried it). Don't think the python parser

Re: italics

2003-11-29 Thread Dave Maddock
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Re: aa font speedup

2003-11-22 Thread Dave Maddock
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Re: aa font speedup

2003-11-22 Thread Dave Maddock
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Re: aa font speedup

2003-11-22 Thread Dave Maddock
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Re: on the lastest 1.6 version

2003-11-05 Thread Dave Maddock
vice. When you upgrade, this metadata format may change (due to revised code, new features, etc.). In this case, the viewer will generate a new metadata document and ignore the old one. A bit annoying, but there's no easy way around it. -- Dave Maddo

Re: rotating

2003-09-23 Thread Dave Maddock
> think) all the Palm's with big displays are ARM, we could rotate > fullscreens only on them. I can send my current patch (or a viewer.prc) if All 'official' Palm hardware perhaps, but my Sony Clie NR70 has a 66MHz Dragonball. -- Dave Madd

Re: Version 1.5

2003-09-08 Thread Dave Maddock
When upgrading you can almost put money on the fact that you'll lose bookmark data. This has happened to me every time. > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003, Nathan Bullock wrote: > > Just a quick question, is there any incompatibilities > > when viewing 1.4 documents in the 1.5 viewer? > > Nope; neither with

Re: supporting unicode, a possible solution?

2003-08-15 Thread Dave Maddock
mp around idea, but I wonder how much slower jumping around would be. Does your font code allow for fonts in separate pdb(s)? -- Dave Maddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev

supporting unicode, a possible solution?

2003-08-15 Thread Dave Maddock
Since I've been playing with the unicode functions in the parser and viewer, I think I may have a viable idea for displaying unicode characters.  This is kind of how my i-mode patch works (only using bitmaps instead of fonts of course).   The big problem is that PalmOS doesn't support unicod

i-mode, round 2

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Maddock
sets: some i-mode content is in SHIFT-JIS, some in latin-based charsets. When SHIFT-JIS is being used, the parser incorrectly adds the SHIFT-JIS character as a unicode character. My patch compensates for this. -- Dave Maddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> imode.zip Description: Zip archive

Re: Greek Transliteration

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Maddock
dering that has some value to the reader. As long as the viewer can display the unicode character, the alternate rendering will be ignored. -- Dave Maddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchic

Greek Transliteration

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Maddock
unction in TextParser.py on a more comprehensive dictionary instead of a big if/else block? I'll code it... -- Dave Maddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev

HTML tag support

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Maddock
On browsing bugs.plkr.org, I came across #196 asking for a supported tags reference, so I started this table: http://www.pluckerbooks.com/tags.html It is based on the python parser in cvs. I compared this to the W3's HTML4 spec and noticed a few things that could be supported with fairly trivial

Re: Greek Transliteration

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Maddock
the Unicode Greek New Testament on Pluckerbooks with and without the patch: http://dave.pluckerbooks.com:81/index.php?action=details&id=2001 (the site is running with the patch) -- Dave Maddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> translit.zip Description: Zip archive

Re: Greek Transliteration

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Maddock
> Thanks for making a patch for swapping encodings. Is there a commandline > switch for switching a lookup table (similar to how we can hotswap an > exclusionlist.txt for a list of exclusions)? No, to customize it you'd actually have drop your file into UnicodeDict.py's place. I can add a cl swit

Re: Server-side distilling

2003-07-22 Thread Dave Maddock
e. Check the list archives for messages about my.plkr.org and PODS for some of the potential problems there... -- Dave Maddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev

Re: keyboard support

2003-07-09 Thread Dave Maddock
. This would come in very handy for those of us creating content with Plucker in mind. -- Dave Maddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 09:54, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: > I added fully customizable keyboard / single character graffiti support in > CVS. So you can do such thing

Re: MemoURL extension for viewer

2003-07-09 Thread Dave Maddock
e cool to be able save urls in the pdbs metadata database which a conduit could grab at hotsync time and add to an inclusion list for that channel. -- Dave Maddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ru

Re: Parsing MS Word documents

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Maddock
> From what I understand so far, you want some sort of bookmarklet >plugin in your browser to convert? Your browser would have to understand the >mime type of the Word document and either launch Word, or launch the >conversion tool of choice to convert it to Plucker format. Or am I missing >your pr

Re: Parsing MS Word documents

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Maddock
> Not at all, you can make a script that just takes a path to a Word >doc as an argument and converts. Sure, if all you want is to convert one document. My company has a home page with internal news, etc. with links to relevant Word documents. It would be nice to have the home page with news and

Re: Parsing MS Word documents

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Maddock
>My company does too. I use a section in .pluckerrc and a couple of >scripts (run by before_command and after_command) to do the translation >with wv and the cleanup. *snip* >Maybe we should just provide the scripting. The limitation with this is that the user has to plan for this and setu

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread Dave Maddock
>What about writing a Plucker authoring guide, with guidelines specifying >which parts of HTML are supported, how to achieve particular formatting, >what to do and what not to do, etc.? Or is there such a thing already? >I'm planning to write a reference for JPluck that explain how HTML is >parsed,

accesskey attribute support

2002-11-13 Thread Dave Maddock
Has anyone considered supporting the accesskey attribute which binds a keypress, or graffiti stroke in our case, to a particular element? It would come in handy for things like following links and jumping to anchors. It is helpful with form related tags as well, if/when forms are supported. Thou

another pluck-comics patch

2002-11-11 Thread Dave Maddock
Attached is another patch for the pluck-comics tool. Here is what I've added: 1. the ability to fetch a random number of comics (in addition to any explicitly named) 2. the option to rotate the comic (requires imagemagick) -- nice for using the hardware buttons to scroll! 3. a prettier home page