[Here are some Plucker comments from an acquaintance who's written one
of the most interesting document viewers I've ever seen, and who's
just discovered Plucker. He's busy adding Plucker support to his
viewer. -- Bill]
I have some comments about the Plucker data format specification
from the point of view of someone who's not a Palm programmer
and who's new to Plucker.
* It's weird that the argument length is kept as part of the
command op code, rather than being masked out
* It's weird that all document records, including
image and mailto and url, have field for "paragraphs".
* Like HTML Plucker pages arbitrarily point to other pages.
It would be useful to have a concept of page numbers,
so that in the case of pages split due to Palm memory restrictions,
page across them in a common way, in the case of reference manuals
and documents that have a definite sequence to page across them
in a standard way, and in general to be able to page across all
the pages in a book.
Speaking as a user who's recently put Plucker on my Palm, here's my
wish list. I have been using QED, which just handles ASCII documents,
and basically I could throw out QED in favor of Plucker but for the
following:
* It would be nice if Plucker were generalized to handle
long documents without splitting, like QED does.
* It would be nice if Plucker had an line-based document mode
which, like QED, would allow scrolling across long lines,
and wrapping at an arbitrary column (like column 400).
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