[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > opening the book in .html just produces a lot of errors becouse the book > is spread across lots of files, and the jurnal isolation mechanisms copy > the file being opened to a temporary directory, where all the links to the > other files don't work.
Note that you could have entered file:///media in Browse and located the HTML files; I believe the links to other files would then have worked OK but you'd have to wander around with the USB flash drive hanging out of your XO. In an ideal world the book would be packaged as a single collection (.xol) file, so downloading it would unpack it in ~/Library and add it to the content navigation in the OLPC Library home page. You could try http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_a_collection and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Content_bundle_making_script . (I put Little-Brother.xol on USB, it showed up in Journal, I chose "Start" and this all happened and Browse displayed the e-book.) In this ideal world the .xol container would gain traction as an e-book format and Bain, Project Gutenberg, and the other content repositories would offer books as .xol bundles. HTML in Browse integrates cleanly with the library/home page, can use advanced CSS for attractive layout, takes you from a link to a document without the download-Journal-Read steps, avoids PDF's fundamental broken-ness rendering a paper page on a screen, has JavaScript to add interactivity and features like annotations, etc. etc. It's the future. But PDF is certainly an important legacy format. Regards, -- =S Page _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
