Dear all,
after taking a rather longish break, I'm back working on my project
gutenberg integration code. This message consists of three parts: in the
first part, I quickly describe what it is all about. The second part
contains a number of technical questions, and the third part talks about
bugs in wiki-app.
All code is available at gitorious:
git://gitorious.org/wikireader-ness/wikireader-ness2.git
What this is all about:
My idea is that akin to wikipedia, project gutenberg provides a large
collection of free data that may be nice carrying in your pocket. So I
have been working on extending the offline-render to also process ebooks
in EPUB format.
To quickly see what this is about, try
make DESTDIR=image WORKDIR=work WIKI_FILE_PREFIX=wiki WIKI_LANGUAGE=en
WIKI_DIR_SUFFIX=guten EBOOK_FILES=ebook-samples VERBOSE=yes cleandirs
createdirs birc
There is some more functionality on which I can elaborate if anyone is
interested, but this is basically it.
You have to harvest the ebooks yourself, but I can provide scripts for
project gutenberg, and also for project gutenberg-de.
Technical Questions:
1) Is there a "deep" reason why boldface fonts are not implemented? I
figure they are not really relevant for wikis, but would be nice for
some of the books. Unless there is something that complicates the matter
I'm not seeing, I think I will add them (should be straightforward to
mimic the behaviour of italic fonts?).
2) Could you please add the characters U+2039 and U+203A ('SINGLE
LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK' and right-pointing version) to the
font? They are used quite often in some books and the box just looks
ugly. Again I would do this myself but there seem to be a number of
intermediate stages in font generation that I don't really understand.
3) Is it possible that the english language image on
dev.thewikireader.org is corrupted? When I try to extract it with 7z x
enpedia.7z I get a cryptic "Error: E_FAIL" message. (I'm running
standard 7z of debian testing, version 9.04 beta.)
Bugs in wiki-app:
I believe that in the course of writing and testing my extensions, I
have fixed some minor bugs in the core wiki-app code. My changes are
very small and isolated, so the maintainers of the main repository may
wish to look at these files only.
Thanks,
Tom
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