On this whole Newton Book issue. Am I correct in assuming the Newton
Press and "Paperback" are the only tools for making a Newton Book?
I'm new to Newton Books... OK, I'm new to all things Newton... and am
just trying to get more info. Did anyone ever make any type of plug-in
for a WP that would allow docs to be saved as PKG's? I've been reading
FOTR, but it's riddled with spelling and punctuation errors that can
only be attributed to sloppy tools for getting it into it's final form.
Are there any tools for converting any P*!m books or docs over to Newt?
Fred=20
-----Original Message-----
From: Grant [Icosahedron] Hutchinson [mailto:grant_at_splorp.com]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 1:25 PM
To: Newton-Talk
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Increasing font size in books
In a previous message, Victor Rehorst typed vigorously:
>> I don't suppose that the font style and point size is stored is some
>> logical spot within the book is it? I'm not clear on what the
structure
>> of a compiled Newton book looks like, but could you use something
like
>> ViewFrame to find the location of the information and then write a
system
>> patch that allowed you to change it?
>
>You probably could. Except that the way the books are structured would
>make it not so useful. AFAIK, when a book is compiled, NPress (or what
>have you) calculates based on the font sizes how much text is going to
fit
>on every page, and then that is the text for that page, period. It
can't
>automatically "wrap" text to the next page or grab it from a previous
page
>to display it. Probably if you increased the font size for a
particular
>page you'd just have the text cut off and an ellipse (...) at the end.
>And the next page *wouldn't* have the missing text. This is a bug that
>sometimes happens when compiling books anyways.
I knew that the compilation of the book actually fixes the contents to a
given page, but I forgot about that fact that the non-visible text would
not be accessible. Doh. You know what might be a really cool solution
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this and would avoid the page wrap issue? How about a zoom function? You
would create a virtual page of the current book page that could be
viewed=20
at a different scale by zooming in or out.
I have no idea how how you'd do that. Oh well.
g.
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