On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 23:42, Jim Simmons<[email protected]> wrote: > The usual automatic announcement went out to the Sugar-Devel list but > I thought it might be appropriate to mention something here too.
Hi Jim, do you think it's worth asking for feedback in olpc-sur even if the activities may not be fully translated? Regards, Tomeu > The latest View Slides can now extract an image from a slide show and > make a Journal entry with the correct MIME type. This was something > that someone asked for awhile back. The need was to be able to > distribute a collection of images such that individual images could be > extracted and used to create a Memorize game, for example. > > View Slides also supports annotations and bookmarks (but not > highlighting) much like Read Etexts does. > > I also fixed lots of bugs. I'm not saying ALL of them, but a lot. > > Read Etexts has a new filter script that lets you read ebooks in RTF > format. This is useful to read the books in the Baen Free Library, > which contains current and near current science fiction titles that > you can download and read for free. Of the formats available for > download, RTF is the easiest to support. I just convert it to a plain > text file on the fly. The conversion is not perfect, but it is > readable. So in addition to reading Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and > Stanley G. Weinbaum our learners can also read _The Two Faces of > Tomorrow_ by James P. Hogan and other good stuff. > > James Simmons > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
