John covici writes: uld you want to take the XML tags out of a DAISY file? That's like taking all the sign posts off the street corners. Ugly. Instead, learn what they're for, if you're developing reading applications. They're extremely useful once you understand how to use them, and lots of people will thank you for building an application that uses them smartly. To learn about all of this, though, you'll have to rtfm. The fm is available at: http://www.daisy.org and http://www.loc.gov/nls/z3986/ > From: John covici <covici at ccs.covici.com> > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
