On 12 Sep 2002 at 21:45, Ken Findlay wrote:

Hi Ken, Thanks for your letter. Sorry about the slow reply. Missed this one in the 
inbox, 
somehow.

> Great to see you adding a Windows front-end to Plucker. I have a couple of 
> suggestions:
> 
> 1. Include the RTF2HTML program with the distribution (it's freeware) and 
> integrate it into the Plucker Desktop to give users the ability of converting 
> Word and RTF documents to Plucker format. Here is a download link::
> 
> *   .http://www.ebookgraphics.com/software/software1.html

Sound reasonable. I may snag some source converters and thus be able to use things in 
a cross 
platform way. For example, a cross-platform Palm DOC->text converter is now written 
(not put in 
yet though).

There will probably need to be some soft of plugin architecture for converters so that 
people 
don't need to be installed if not used.

These are more longer term things though.

> 2. Provide an option for the user to specify the automatic generation of 
> bookmarks form HTML or RTF headings. A range of headings could be turned on to 
> place bookmarks in the Plucker output file. For example - generate bookmarks 
> for heading levels 1 through 3.

I agree this is handy. However, for Plucker it is a bit different than some others 
(say Palm 
DOC files), since the Plucker bookmarks are user bookmarks: they aren't stored in the 
output 
document .pdb, but in a separate meta database on the Palm, with other user settings 
for that 
document.

One option you can use is an authoring system that can autogenerate links to headings 
(like 
LaTex etc,) so you could have an index page of links to headings. Or perhaps you may 
wish to 
modify your parser in a way that it generates a html file with an indexed list of 
hyperlink 
headings, and include that page in the output.

Best wishes,
Robert
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