On 11/2/06, dipankar das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 03 Nov 2006 7:02 am, Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > > > I've recently been playing around with AJAX, using the Bangla archive > > as an example. Today I finally managed to get something that works > > reasonably well in Firefox/Konqueror/IE (only IE 7 tested so far). The > > results can be seen here: > > > > http://www.bengalinux.org/projects/archive/dynamic.php > > It was quite interesting. There are a few problems though. 'বঙ্গভাষা' entry in > 'মধুসূদন দত্ত' is not working, at least in Konqueror.
Not working in what sense? It used to be that Konqueror didn't implement the white-space:pre CSS property, and to work around that I had  's inserted all over the place in pre-formatted content (i.e. poetry). This seems to have been fixed in the latest version (I'm running 3.5.5), so I didn't bother to do that any more (it increases file sizes by a lot). The old versions are still available though (see below). If there's some other kind of problem, please give more details. > And if i click anything > while the 'loading' signal is there, the whole thing at times goes to a > freeze. Is it some problem with the Java in my box, or the package? No java involved, only javascript. But I tried doing that here, and it seemed OK (i.e. the last click got processed). Maybe I should make sure the earlier requests are aborted. One (bad) way of debugging (in Firefox/Konq) is to turn off the stylesheet (konq View->Use Stylesheet->Basic Page Style), in which case a message box with some debugging messages is visible. > But it > was interesting: it is so novel to see Bangla text archives, not images, or > PDF-s. This is actually a fairly old project (started circa 2001, and languishing since 2004). The link given above actually goes to http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/AltWebPage/dynamic.html The old version is available at http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/bengali.html and it's corresponding new version is at http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/AltWebPage/bengali.html The difference in the new version is that most of the HTML files are now XHTML and as I said, the -s are dropped. > Is the archive searchable? Through google, which seems good enough to me. I have thought of adding a search box on the site itself (along with a little phonetic input tool), but haven't managed to do it yet. > Did you type in all the things? Is there any news of Bangla OCR on the > horizon? Any works of this kind are so limited by the absence of a reasonably > good OCR. And so many millions of good old Bangla works are there outside > copyright. That's one of my favorite topics :-), and unfortunately, no, I don't know of any good OCR software available (there are many that _claim_ to exist, but are not available either commercially or otherwise). I have, naturally, tried to experiment with it myself over the years, and my best effort so far is hosted at http://bocra.sourceforge.net Test cases and some results are available at http://bocra.sourceforge.net/doc/gb-bn.html Needless to say, there are still lots of problems. I'll be happy to discuss more if anyone's interested. Since you mention PDF's, there's something I've been meaning to ask on the list (and you specifically, since you work with openoffice). Last time I tried, both gnome and kde did a lousy job of creating PDF files from HTML. On the other hand, Openoffice does really great, in terms of embedding vector fonts and keeping file sizes down. Do you (or anyone else) know of a good way to convert HTML to PDF using openoffice through a command line script? If there is a way, it might be nice to be able to offer PDF versions as well. -Deepayan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bengalinux-core mailing list Bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core
