On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta<sayami...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> First of all, a PDF is pretty much just well-behaved postscript. >> You can embed that in more postscript. The user can thus scribble >> all over the document. >> > > In this context, I have been playing around with Read + Epub - and I > have posted a short, unstructured dump of my thoughts at > http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/08/12/braindump-on-ebooks/ > > Some screencasts: > > ** http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/interactive_books_video/video.ogv > - shows that a video clip can be embedded in a book readable by Read > > ** http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/interactive_books_video/python.ogv > - shows that a python shell can be embedded in a book readable by Read > > ** http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/interactive_books_video/digital_logic.ogv > - shows that a etoys simulation can be embedded in a book readable by Read > > I have also started to experiment with ebooks as exercise books - > HTML5 local storage looks promising, and with some magic at the school > server end, we might be able to get something done. I'll resume my > experiments during the weekends, and will post updates when I have > some progress. > Of course - none of this is _standard_ epub, and I'll try to figure > out where I can get information about planned updates to the Epub > spec, and if this type of use-case can be accommodated into the next > version. This is very, very cool. So cool, in fact, that your paper crown is in the mail: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pretty_Pretty_Princess SJ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
