From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cpe-24-221-98-238.az.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.98.238] helo=lnx1.holmesgrown.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19l7KH-0005Vv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Aug 2003 09:30:37 -0400 Received: from lnx3.holmesgrown.com ([192.168.1.5] ident=mail) by lnx1.holmesgrown.com with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19l7Jk-0004XQ-St for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 08 Aug 2003 06:30:04 -0700 Received: from steve by lnx3.holmesgrown.com with local (Exim 4.20) id 19l7Jk-00027o-Br for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 08 Aug 2003 06:30:04 -0700 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 06:30:04 -0700 From: Steve Holmes To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: file viewing with bookmarks saving? Message-ID: <20030808133001.GA8167@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> Mail-Followup-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca References: <20030807011142.GA4162@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> <20030808062852.GA7908@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> <16179.31879.341825.738954@akp@eznet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16179.31879.341825.738954@akp@eznet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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