On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Samuel Klein<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta<[email protected]> > 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 >
Heh, thank you very much :-). Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
