file viewing with bookmarks saving?

[John covici]

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.
 > > 
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