After a long dry spell, there is finally an update to Doc Toolkit, the Python e-text conversion toolkit. It has been renamed to Pyrite Publisher and almost completely rewritten. Source and generic i386 RPM are at: http://www.pyrite.org/download.php The new release has a number of important changes from Doc Toolkit 1.1.x: * Completely rewritten core architecture that allows for arbitrary sequences of conversion modules, which are connected into a pipeline according to what interfaces they implement on both input and output. This will allow for expansion beyond Doc texts, to other content types in the future. * Auto-selection of conversions based on input MIME type (e.g. feed it a web page, it uses an HTML/rich text pipeline instead of a plain-text one). * No dependencies on outside software, except for the Python interpreter. * Builds and installs using the standard Python "distutils" package. And of course it retains most of Doc Toolkit's features: * Convert HTML to semi-rich-text Doc (TealDoc and RichReader) * Convert text to Doc with paragraph reflowing, optionally with a simple markup language that allows bookmarks, headings, etc. * Fetches content from local files, http, or ftp, and can un-gzip automatically. * True bookmark support This release is just the beginning, and I plan to add a lot of stuff to it in the next few months -- specifically, I intend to support more Doc readers for rich text output, and also allow conversion *from* various Doc formats to other ones. I welcome feedback on what sort of things people will find most important... Enjoy, --Rob -- Rob Tillotson N9MTB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Pilot-unix mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/pilot-unix
