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

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

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

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 to control

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 yet. If

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 taken while

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.

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: 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

Re: external bookmarks support (patch included)

2004-02-23 Thread Dave Maddock
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] attachment: extbmarks2.zip

external bookmarks support (patch included)

2004-02-21 Thread Dave Maddock
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] attachment: extbmarks.zip

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: 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 claiming

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 might

Re: italics

2003-11-29 Thread Dave Maddock
-- Philosophiam discimus non ut tantum sciamus, sed ut boni efficiamur. - Paul of Worczyn (1424) ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev -- Dave

Re: aa font speedup

2003-11-22 Thread Dave Maddock
boni efficiamur. - Paul of Worczyn (1424) ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev -- Dave Maddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ plucker-dev

Re: aa font speedup

2003-11-22 Thread Dave Maddock
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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 any

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 unicode

Re: Greek Transliteration

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

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

Greek Transliteration

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Maddock
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

Re: Greek Transliteration

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Maddock
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.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev

i-mode, round 2

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Maddock
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: Server-side distilling

2003-07-22 Thread Dave Maddock
of the potential problems there... -- Dave Maddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev

Re: MemoURL extension for viewer

2003-07-09 Thread Dave Maddock
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.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 things as bind m to pop

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 setup

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
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

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.