Re: [IAEP] Texas Senate Bills 866 867 regarding dyslexia passed over the weekend

2011-05-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On further thought, it seems to me that there should be two activities. The first is a reader. At minimum it should read plain text, PDF and EPUB files. The Read activity fulfils this requirement. An additional feature would be text-to-speech, with word highlighting (as Read ETexts has). In this

Re: [IAEP] Texas Senate Bills 866 867 regarding dyslexia passed over the weekend

2011-05-30 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Well, you are describing our solution :) On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.auwrote: On further thought, it seems to me that there should be two activities. The first is a reader. At minimum it should read plain text, PDF and EPUB files. The Read activity

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New activity from OLPC France

2011-05-30 Thread Stefanie Nobel
To whom it might concern I would very much appreciate your help in gathering a list of the globally most important kitchen equipment and utensils as my knowledge here is limited to German cooking costumes and standards. For your information: in the activity there is a virtual kitchen where

Re: [IAEP] Texas Senate Bills 866 867 regarding dyslexia passed over the weekend

2011-05-30 Thread James Simmons
Actually, Read Etexts already has a built-in downloader for Gutenberg Etexts. Just open it from the Activity ring (instead of resuming an existing text) and you'll see the Gutenberg-specific downloader. It is much easier to implement text highlighting on a plain text file than it is on a PDF,

Re: [IAEP] Pathagar library

2011-05-30 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, I am trying to install pathagar on my schoolserver (having a little trouble configuring httpd correctly). I hope to start with a representative sample of the English items in Pustakalaya (www.pustakalaya.org). I believe the library needs to handle not only e-books but also media

[IAEP] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?

2011-05-30 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hi all, it's still early days but it looks like the ASUS Eee PC X101 presented at a pre-Computex press event today could be a good platform for Sugar. At a price-point of $199, less than 1kg of weight, and with a 1.33GHz Intel Atom CPU this really does look like an interesting product for

Re: [IAEP] [Argentina] [Sur] Planet Sugarlabs Latinoamerica

2011-05-30 Thread Bernie Innocenti
[cc += iaep] On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 11:43 -0400, Edward Cherlin wrote: Is there a way for a reader to filter the feed, to get just entries in Spanish? Can we add an automatic translation button? Would anybody be willing to commit to some amount of translation in either direction? The

[IAEP] I am so excited I can hardly stand it - how about a Daisy Reader too?

2011-05-30 Thread marilyn
Hi! Oh my goodness . . . you can read EPUBs? That is great!! Even the book reader people say they can't speak EPUB - I am thinking about KNO and the reader that Barnes and Noble is pushing. They say they can't do it. Can you also include a Daisy Reader or something that works with the RFBD

Re: [IAEP] I am so excited I can hardly stand it - how about a Daisy Reader too?

2011-05-30 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 2:36 PM, mari...@ourdyslexicchildren.org wrote: Hi! Oh my goodness . . . you can read EPUBs? That is great!! Even the book reader people say they can't speak EPUB - I am thinking about KNO and the reader that Barnes and Noble is pushing. They say they can't do it.

Re: [IAEP] [Argentina] [Sur] Planet Sugarlabs Latinoamerica

2011-05-30 Thread Edward Cherlin
I could assist, but I can't take on another whole project, even part time. On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:47, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: [cc += iaep] On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 11:43 -0400, Edward Cherlin wrote: Is there a way for a reader to filter the feed, to get just entries in

Re: [IAEP] [Argentina] [Sur] Planet Sugarlabs Latinoamerica

2011-05-30 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 16:32 -0400, Edward Cherlin wrote: I could assist, but I can't take on another whole project, even part time. Thank you, I understand. It's best not to overcommit. -- Bernie Innocenti Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team

Re: [IAEP] I am so excited I can hardly stand it - how about a Daisy Reader too?

2011-05-30 Thread mokurai
On Mon, May 30, 2011 2:38 pm, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 2:36 PM, mari...@ourdyslexicchildren.org wrote: Hi! Oh my goodness . . . you can read EPUBs? That is great!! Even the book reader people say they can't speak EPUB - I am thinking about KNO and the reader that

Re: [IAEP] Texas Senate Bills 866 867 regarding dyslexia passed over the weekend

2011-05-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 30 May 2011 22:24, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Well, you are describing our solution :) Great to hear! We are excited about this :) Read can open PDF, EPUB, DejaVu and text files. Can do text to speech with word highlighting of text files, and only text to speech of EPUB files