From: John Charlton (johncharlton_at_mac.com)
Date: Tue Apr 06 2004 - 19:26:00 PDT
On Apr 06, 2004, at 11:39, Bruce E. Durocher II wrote:
> Below you'll see my e-mails with the gent who owns the site. As you
> can see, he's perfectly willing to include automatic etext conversion
> for the Newton again: he just needs an OS X native tool to handle it.
I'm wondering if he'd open the code he previously used to create
NewtonBooks. Sounds as though he had it automated (i.e. "on-the-fly")
rather than by hand on demand (i.e. "wait-a-day-or-two"). If it was
automatic I'm sure one of our talented programmers could Carbonize and
enhance it for OS X.
> He suggests a rewritten Paperback which I seem to remember had been
> discussed on the list previously--that David Fedor wasn't hostile but
> didn't want to write a new version.
Again, if that format is more amenable to auto-generation that might be
a better route.
A third option is to create a new 'standard' for text books on the
Newton. Would it be so hard? Or would it simply make more sense to use
Newtscape to read simple HTML-formatted text, creating a book (with a
book's enhanced abilities) when necessary. How /does/ Newtscape create
a book anyway? Is it privy to some internal function or does Steve know
something he's not letting on?
jc
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