Re: LiveCode for e-book production

2011-02-02 Thread Javier Miranda V.
Thank you very much for your posts regarding this topic. Your feedback will be very helpful, I´m glad you find it interesting, this confirms the great characteristics and features of LiveCode and the great community around it. Saludos, Javier Miranda V. __

Re: LiveCode for e-book production

2011-01-31 Thread Sivakatirswami
I know LiveCode, being so powerful, can handle complex projects involving lots of logic and structures, but is it suitable / practical to use it for e-book production? Saludos, Javier Miranda V. Like Jim said and Colin implied, "It depends on what you mean by eBook. " We are deep into eBo

Re: LiveCode for e-book production

2011-01-31 Thread Bob Sneidar
friends, can you please give me your opinions on using LiveCode for > e-book production?. I know LiveCode, being so powerful, can handle complex > projects involving lots of logic and structures, but is it suitable / > practical to use it for e-book production?. The possibility of compi

Re: LiveCode for e-book production

2011-01-31 Thread Andre Garzia
Javier, It will be hard to do pure livecode solution for reading epubs, but if you mix in some revbrowser magic, then it can be done easily. Just unzip the epub container, rewrite some HTMLs to a temp place and load them. Andre On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Javier Miranda V. wrote: > As I c

Re: LiveCode for e-book production

2011-01-31 Thread Javier Miranda V.
As I can tell by your responses I find LC can effectively be used as tool for e-book preparation and also as a reader. Thank you for your responses, now it´s something related on establishing the scope of the project. The idea would be to produce a reader capable to reading publications create

Re: LiveCode for e-book production

2011-01-31 Thread Andre Garzia
EPUB format is easy but it is full of namespaces. LiveCode can generate and read epubs but you need some hacks to change those namespaces. I did some research on that and so did Sivakatirswami. On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > If the plan is to have LC just be a tool for g

Re: LiveCode for e-book production

2011-01-30 Thread Colin Holgate
If the plan is to have LC just be a tool for gathering the bits together, and then to spit out an e-book that other tools can read, look at the EPUB format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB If instead you want use LC as the book reader itself, and bring external text into it and then format it

Re: LiveCode for e-book production

2011-01-30 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Jan 29, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Javier Miranda V. wrote: Dear friends, can you please give me your opinions on using LiveCode for e-book production?. I know LiveCode, being so powerful, can handle complex projects involving lots of logic and structures, but is it suitable / practical to use

Re: LiveCode for e-book production

2011-01-29 Thread Colin Holgate
A week tomorrow is the 19th anniversary of me moving to the US. Just before that date I had written the Expanded Books software, and the first task I had when I moved was to cowrite an Expanded Books Toolkit, that would allow you to publish your own Expanded Books. If we could do all that in Hy

Re: LiveCode for e-book production

2011-01-29 Thread Jim Ault
On Jan 29, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Javier Miranda V. wrote: Dear friends, can you please give me your opinions on using LiveCode for e-book production?. I know LiveCode, being so powerful, can handle complex projects involving lots of logic and structures, but is it suitable / practical to use

LiveCode for e-book production

2011-01-29 Thread Javier Miranda V.
Dear friends, can you please give me your opinions on using LiveCode for e-book production?. I know LiveCode, being so powerful, can handle complex projects involving lots of logic and structures, but is it suitable / practical to use it for e-book production?. The possibility of compile for