From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ccs.covici.com ([209.249.181.196]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19l7V3-0005mV-00 for ; Fri, 08 Aug 2003 09:41:45 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com (IDENT:covici@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h78DfgtG031840 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:41:42 -0400 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h78Dfgak031837; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:41:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16179.43158.355624.95586@ccs.covici.com> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:41:42 -0400 From: John covici To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: file viewing with bookmarks saving? In-Reply-To: <20030808133001.GA8167@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> References: <20030807011142.GA4162@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> <20030808062852.GA7908@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> <16179.31879.341825.738954@akp@eznet.net> <20030808133001.GA8167@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 21.3.50.6 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Reply-To: covici@ccs.covici.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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@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@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@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@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com