Re: [NTLK] newtontalk Digest V6 #181

From: Eric W. Brown <feneric_at_mac.com>
Date: Wed Apr 26 2006 - 16:38:30 EDT

> Being able to read Newton Books on Mac OS X wouldn't hurt either. And
> once the spec is determined, my guess is it wouldn't take someone all
> that long to create a Spotlight plug-in to allow indexing of Newton
> Book packages.

You already can, via a plug-in I wrote for Firefox, Seamonkey, and
Flock:

        http://www.newtonslibrary.org/nbrdr/

The Spotlight plug-in should be a fairly straightforward modification
of the Newton book external parser I made for ht://dig a bit over a
year ago (that was in turn based on a shell app I made a few years
ago)...

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