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 19mcdS-0007z1-00 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:08:38 -0400 Received: from lnx3.holmesgrown.com ([192.168.1.5] ident=mail) by lnx1.holmesgrown.com with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19mccv-0006oT-1r for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:08:05 -0700 Received: from steve by lnx3.holmesgrown.com with local (Exim 4.20) id 19mccw-0000Mc-FX for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:08:06 -0700 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:08:06 -0700 From: Steve Holmes To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: file viewing with bookmarks saving? Message-ID: <20030812170804.GA1397@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> Mail-Followup-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca References: <20030810140707.GF1022@rednote.net> <20030812162441.GA363@chris> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030812162441.GA363@chris> 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: 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. -- Make sure your E-mail can be read by everyone! http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html