file viewing with bookmarks saving?

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Sat Aug 9 19:04:40 EDT 2003


But John, that's the definition of a DAISY player.


John covici writes:
> From: John covici <covici at ccs.covici.com>
> 
> When I unpack something from bookshare (at least an o'reilly book I
> tried), I get several files, including a ncx and xml files which have
> all the navigation information one could wish -- but I don't know of
> a program to properly read it.
> 
> on Saturday 08/09/2003 Steve Holmes(steve at holmesgrown.com) wrote
>  > On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 11:03:18AM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote:
>  > > Hi all,
>  > > 
>  > > Steve, make sure you mention you're using Linux.    If this is the
>  > > case, then they really do need to clean up their act here.  This is
>  > > unpardonable! 
>  > Actually, I did; I didn't make a *BIG* deal about it but mentioned
>  > being a linux user and referred to the lynx browser and the like.  I
>  > also mentioned my consideration for possibly developing a DAISY reader
>  > for linux.  
>  > 
>  > Actually, I wouldn't mind just dumping the book into HTML from the
>  > Export utility but currently, the resulting HTML is nothing more than
>  > a big *LONG* text file with no navigation.  If I could navigate
>  > between chapters and sections and from the table of contents and
>  > index, I wouldn't be all that concerned about DAISY at this moment but...
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