Re: [NTLK] RouteBook

From: Steve Weyer (weyer_at_kagi.com)
Date: Thu Nov 15 2001 - 06:24:36 EST


> From: Michael Drabicki <drabicki_at_mac.com>
> Subject: [NTLK] RouteBook
>
> Does RouteBook work with PaperBack books? Are there other ways for a
> newton book to be read by Speaktext?

besides RouteBook, Bernie Bernstone did a reader for Newton books.
(sorry I don't have a working link, but you can search the usual current
archives mentioned in the FAQ)

I don't know about using SpeakText with Paperbacks --
Paperbacks aren't "Newton books" but use a different format and reader.
[if you think this is confusing, look at the zillion different "book"
formats for Palm]

Maybe there's a way to export the Paperback text to Notes or NewtWorks and
speak the text from there??

(Newt's Cape can open Paperbacks -- if they contain HTML (otherwise, it
ignores them); so, one amusing approach is to create your paperback with
some minimal HTML markup wrappers:
    <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>the title</TITLE></HEAD>
    <BODY><XMP>your paperback text goes here</XMP></BODY></HTML>
then open it in Newt's Cape, it's displayed as plain text;
and read it using RouteBook plugin...
note: old XMP tag instead of PRE to avoid parsing any embedded & < > etc.)

-- 
Steve
  weyer_at_kagi.com
Newton apps/tools: Newt's Cape, NewtDevEnv, Sloup, Crypto,...
  http://www.kagi.com/weyer/

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