file viewing with bookmarks saving?

[Steve Holmes]

Well, like I said before, the O'Reily are not in BRF format; DAISY is
the only way.  We can extract the files from the archive with unpack
utility and specify -html to get an HTML version of the book.  Then
use lynx to save it out as a txt file; you could do that with the
print command or possibly use -dump command line option.  I'm just
saying that this HTML and of course, the plain text file has no
navigation features.  You just end up with this *HUGE* stream of text
- a real pain for reference material.  This might not be a problem
withnovils and such.

Oh, as for emacs, the specifics on bookmarking is to do a c-x r m to
add the mark, c-x r l to list existing bookmarks.  The info
documentation under registers within emacs explains this in full
detail.  I got back into the emacs mood this weekend and got back up
to speed on this bookmarks stuff - just as fast and exciting as before:).

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 12:24:41PM -0400, Christopher Moore wrote:
> I think Ann had the best approach for reading bookshare stuff in linux:
> download the brf versions and back-translate using nfbtrans. You could then
> use the split command to divide the result into chunks of say 2000 lines.  
> 
> I'm actually grateful for bookshare because they have provided many books
> much soner than NLS.  So I'm in no hurry to jump on the bookshare bashing
> bandwagon.  What I do find puzzling is that the supplied windows version of
> Victor reader doesn't recognize oreilly books.  However, you can read the
> .xml files with ie, if you're in windows.  Next time I'm in windows, and
> who knows when that might be, I'll make an atempt to same an oreilly .xml
> file into txt format.  The trick of how to do this in emacs was mentioned
> but I don't recall any specifics.  

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