On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Jim Simmons<nices...@gmail.com> wrote: > I took the week off and spent a great deal of it in my basement > working on an improvement to Read Etexts which should be available > soon on ASLO. The new feature is annotations, where I let you add > notes to individual pages of a book, plus make as many bookmarks as > you like, using a UI modelled on what the latest Read has. Unlike > Read, I store this information in a Zip file along with the book, > which means that when you share a book the notes and annotations go > with it.
That's great. Cannot wait to try it. > > Another thing I did was to put the title metadata in this file, > because that seemed to be the only way that I could make sure that > when someone shared this file the received file in the Journal would > get some title better than Read Etexts Activity. That part isn't > working at the moment. I need a way to know that a file has been > received from a sharing user and not opened any other way, because > only then do I want to check the annotations file for a title. If > anyone has any ideas I'd like to hear them. > > I'm thinking of adding keyboard shortcuts for the bookmarks. Any > suggestions on what keys to use would be welcome. > > The next feature to be added will be highlighting, probably with > underlines. If there is a passage in a book that is important you can > underline it for emphasis. You should be able to underline multiple > passages per page. > > Finally, I updated one of my development boxes to Fedora 11. It > doesn't look like the gstreamer espeak plugin is included in that > distribution, and unfortunately that box is the one I use for testing > text to speech. Is there an RPM for Fedora 11 that I could install? > > James Simmons > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel