I put the copy of my hacked distiller which keeps things ordered correctly up at http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85/dl/PyPluckerOrdered.zip. You may need to delete the .pyc files if they're not cross-platform compatible. The only thing that is different from cvs is Writer.py. -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057-1133 U.S.A. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] online papers and home page: www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - "Philosophiam discimus non ut tantum sciamus, sed ut boni efficiamur." - Paul of Worczyn (1424) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Wentford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alexander R. Pruss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 8:53 AM Subject: Re: plucker-dev digest: more on record order
> Hi Alex > > > I'll put up my hacked distiller on my website after I run it on my torture > > test, 40mb+ of the works of John Henry Cardinal Newman. (The previous > > hacked version failed, though as I predicted it only failed by giving the > > wrong order, not in any worse way.) > > As I found out when I tried my hack - this isn't as trivial as I would have > expected it to be. > > > As for the 32K thing, yes a continuation marker would be nice, but not > > absolutely necessary (one can just go on to the next record, even if it's > > not a continuation). > > I was doing that for a while but most users prefer to keep the separation > between the various documents in the pluck so that there is a definite "end > of document feel" at the end of each piece (not not at the end of every 32kb > chunk). > > > I already stole the idea from your PocketPC viewer to use page up/down to > > take the first/last link on the first/last screen. > > My one is the Zaurus viewer at www.timwentford.uklinux.net - and I haven't > pinched that particular idea....yet 8^). > > > One way to join up larger files is this. Turn off the scroll to bottom > > option in Prefs(). Then, if we render a record in such a way that there > > is extra space at the bottom, automatically move to the next record, but > > only render it in a window that starts at the bottom of the previous > > record. One way to do this is just to relax the requirement that > > meta->visualOffset has to be negative. Allow a positive one, and the code > > will do this. One can do this in a way that will be largely transparent > > to the user. > > Sounds reasonable but I don't know enough about the Palm viewer to really > comment sensibly. I know that I *really* don't like the scroll to bottom > option, but that is mostly because my app started off as an e-book viewer > rather than a plucker viewer so doen't really follow the web-page paradigm. > > I'll look forward to your distiller making its public debut 8^). > > Many thanks > Tim > > _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
