Emacs will do the saving of places without bookmarks at all, and then if speakup would do indexing or emacspeak, then a read to end feature would work. And you can get rid of all the xml tags in a daisy .xml file with one emacs command. on Friday 08/08/2003 Steve Holmes(steve at holmesgrown.com) wrote > No one has the source code to readit for starters. Several years ago, > I started on a visual basic implementation of readit for windows. It > actually started coming a pretty long ways but... I then saw the light > and came over to linux and more or less abbandoned windows development > alltogether. I never really felt that big a need for a readit program > under linux but if there is that much interest, perhaps I'll look into > doing something about it. I think the biggest thing about readit was > a continuous read-to-end feature and bookmarks - each for separate > files. It also had a directory/file manager but you can do that now > with dired under emacs. See, if I use dired and use bookmarks for > emacs, I have just about everything readit had except for reading > continuously and possibley some more advanced search capability. > > What's this about reading DAISY for reading under linux? I just signed > up for bookshare and All I'm aware of is having to dump the file into > an HTML format with no navigable links. For a guy who loves his hyper > text, this doesn't work so well. > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 06:33:43AM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > What we need is a Readit for Linux! We need something that will > > scroll through a file, and stop when and where you tell it, and be > > able to retrieve that place. Now, if this is possible in DAISY books > > which are supposed to work in Linux, then it ought to be possible to > > code this. I wish I were a programmer, then I would do it myself. I > > don't understand why Readit can't be ported to Linux! > > > > Ann P. > > > > -- > > Ann K. Parsons > > email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 > > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Make sure your E-mail can be read by everyone! > http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
