Re: VFS font support committed

2003-12-15 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
code. Also, please let me know a little more information about what fonts you've got selected in the library and the document: are they aa fonts, non-aa fonts, are they both in VFS, one in VFS and one not, do you have all fonts on VFS, some on VFS some not? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss

Re: Bells and whistles?

2003-12-15 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Jewett, Jim J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Several people think of it as an ebook reader. > > The main problem is that a palm is very limited. It isn't fast, > it has a small screen, and there isn't much storage. (This is > one reason I don't prefer plucker for ebooks -- I can't easily > delete

Re: VFS font support committed

2003-12-15 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
There were a bunch of bugs in the vfs font caching code, and I fixed them this morning. Unfortunately, none of the bugs looked to me like they would give that kind of an error message. But who knows? By the way, something I found useful is to set a very small font for the library and a larger on

Re: Subject: Bells and whistles?

2003-12-15 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
What is "fancy font rendering"? Alex ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev

Re: tiny/small fonts in Clie with OS5

2003-12-15 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Matsumoto, Masakazu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I tried to remap fonts and it succeeded on OS4 Clie Emulator but failed > on OS5 Clie Simulator. > I guess that HRFntSetFont() must be used to select tiny/small fonts on > new Clies with OS5. I suspect the problem is that these fonts are not FontTy

Re: tiny/small fonts in Clie with OS5

2003-12-15 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
e file format are fully documented. All that said, we're talking about enormous bitmap files. Since all of the data gets loaded into RAM, this may be a problem. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown Univers

Re: tiny/small fonts in Clie with OS5

2003-12-16 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Matsumoto, Masakazu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Minimal Japanese character set consists of about 3500 letters and they > are mapped in 8000 character contiguous range ( in case of Shift JIS > encoding ). What about the other CJK encodings? Here's one suggestion for how to do a mapping table. t

Re: plucker-dev digest, Vol 1 #495 - 4 msgs

2003-12-16 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Jewett, Jim J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (I doubt anyone would have even tried to use anti-aliased > fonts on the original palm pilot.) And in fact I have dropped support for anti-aliased fonts prior to OS 3.5 when I introduced kerning. Alex ___ plu

Re: dictionaries for plucker

2003-12-22 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
crolling or > hyperlink jumps. I had to mark and copy a word into in clipboard and > then paste it in RL. We have contacted with TiBR team to make > dictionary popup a standard feature of the reader and we expect new > release of TiBR to come really soon. iSilo is ignoring u

Re: dictionaries for plucker

2003-12-22 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
ker Team? What I visualize is an added control option on which taps on non-anchor text trigger the dictionary, and an added SELECT command which makes the next tap select a word. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online pape

Re: dictionaries for plucker

2003-12-24 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Michael Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > However, *before* the support for this feature is added I want to > review the code and make sure that the impact on the existing code > is minimal. Will do. Alex ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

libraryform selection

2003-12-24 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
I've integrated the fiveway and jogdial selectors in libraryform, and added keyboard selector support. Alex -- 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/fa

Re: dictionaries for plucker

2003-12-26 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Matsumoto, Masakazu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Alexander R. Pruss wrote: > > What I visualize is an added control option on which taps on > > non-anchortext trigger the dictionary, and an added SELECT command > > which makes the next tap select a word. &

Re: dictionaries for plucker

2003-12-26 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Michael Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > However, *before* the support for this feature is added I want to > review the code and make sure that the impact on the existing code > is minimal. Sure. I currently have the code half done or so and I'll send you a patch when it's all done. The i

Re: libraryform selection

2003-12-27 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
the next couple of days. > I also think it should be possible to avoid including this code. True. I'll think about how to do it best. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University || www.

removing extra refresh

2003-12-28 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
There is now an extra screen refresh when autoscrolling stops, due to the need to update anchors. I am removing this by making a new draw mode that only lays out anchors and does nothing else. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057

Re: removing extra refresh

2003-12-28 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
> There is now an extra screen refresh when autoscrolling stops, due to the > need to update anchors. I am removing this by making a new draw mode that > only lays out anchors and does nothing else. Done. (I'm thinking this is really sort of a bug fix. Screen should not be redrawn when nothing

show first

2003-12-29 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Here's an idea. Maybe when we show the prefsform, we should pop up first the pane that was last shown instead of the default show-first one? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057-1133 U.S.A. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] online p

dict lookup committed

2003-12-31 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
I've committed dictionary lookup as a compile-time option, default off. Turn on with --enable-word-lookup, and then configure with Preferences->Lookup. I wonder if it should be included in the cvs snapshot builds so that we could get wider testing. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Depar

UX50

2003-12-31 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
, too. Now the form doesn't disappear on silk resize, which is much nicer. However, this might not work on UX-50 with some popups launched from the library form, e.g., rename. Could someone with a UX-50 who's got the time look into it? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philos

Re: dict lookup committed

2003-12-31 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "David A. Desrosiers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Done. Hourly snapshots now include PalmCUnit support and > word-lookup. And in related good news, RoadLingua has removed the shareware nag window from their dictionary viewer when that dictionary is called via its API. This will be effective in the

Re: Support for unit test using PalmCUnit

2004-01-01 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Michael Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 7:15 AM Subject: Re: Support for unit test using PalmCUnit > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003, Michael Nordstrom wrote: > > I have added support for unit test using PalmCUnit. > > Before a bug is fixed a te

redoing pattern highlighting

2004-01-01 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
ition, rather than a start position and a count. Alex -- 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

Re: redoing pattern highlighting

2004-01-01 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
"if you can't write a test case for a bug fix, then, if there isn't already one, you *have to* create a bug report so it is possible to track this problem." There was a bug report. :-) Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy Georgetown University Washington,

Re: Support for unit test using PalmCUnit

2004-01-01 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
I must confess that I'm thinking of just giving up on doing bug fixes. The process has just got way too complicated. I'm not a professional programmer. I don't understand how unit testing is supposed to work. Alex ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Support for unit test using PalmCUnit

2004-01-01 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Michael Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > However, I will continue writing unit tests and I will expect you to > *run* the tests when you make changes to the code and make sure they > still pass. That's more than fair. > You don't have to be a "professional programmer" to see the benefits >

Re: RoadLingua dictionaries

2004-01-02 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
I should add that for testing the Plucker side of the dictionary support, you don't need the dictionary. Just set the Lookup mode to "Insert into search form". Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057-1133 U.S.A.

Re: RoadLingua dictionaries

2004-01-02 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
It works under Windows using "UnZip 5.32 of 3 November 1997, by Info-ZIP." Alex ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev

Re: VFS problem with handera330

2004-01-02 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Michael Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Something is wrong with the VFS font code; I ran into the same > problem on my TRGpro, but when I removed the VFS font support I > could access the document library again... Hmm. Could I get some more data? Are there vfs fonts installed? Are there

Re: VFS problem with handera330

2004-01-02 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
alue of numberOfFiles ends up being. I fixed this in CVS (after posting a bug report). I haven't seen userland problems as a result of it, but it's possible that this was behind your problems. Let me know if they're still there. Once I fix the VFS font bug, I'll take care of

Re: VFS problem with handera330

2004-01-03 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Michael Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My suggestion is to put the fonts in /Palm/Programs/Plucker/Fonts/. Could we also scan the LAUNCHER directory for the benefit of users who just hotsync the font to the card? Alex ___ plucker-dev mailing l

Re: VFS problem with handera330

2004-01-03 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
> It would be > better if you take a look at the "sequential record" handling and > fix the problem on Palm OS 3 devices. It is possible to reproduce the > problem in POSE, so it shouldn't take that long to find (you know that > code better than me; at least until I have added test cases for it:)

Re: VFS problem with handera330

2004-01-03 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
> One thing I will change is where the fonts should be located. When > they are included in the same directory as the Plucker documents > it will be a very slow process to find the fonts if you have a lot > of documents in the directory (that's why we added an option to not > check the card every t

Re: VFS problem with handera330

2004-01-03 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
> I have found the bug. In AddVFSFile new code was added for the VFS > font support that made it try to close the file twice, Ah. Will you commit the fix? Alex ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listin

Re: VFS problem with handera330

2004-01-03 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Maybe we should just merge the three vfsfileclose() calls into one, after the whole if-else if-else block? Alex ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev

Re: Japanese code converter kcc

2004-01-04 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
I've been asking for a long time for a way to plug in a filter (e.g., a sed filter or something). That would do the job. Does jpluck do Japanese well? Alex ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: fullscreen question

2004-01-04 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
It keeps the state it was last run in. However, on Sony devices it doesn't store whether the statusbar was minimized or not. This is because statusbar minimization is best kept to a minimum, since it may make the user feel stuck in a program. I can change it to store the statusbar minimization s

tolerance for pen up

2004-01-04 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
-side anchors.) But let me know if this is something that should be implemented. Alex -- 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

Re: fullscreen question

2004-01-04 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
> The trouble right now is, it doesn't REMEMBER the state either. Try this: > > Open up a document. Turn on full-screen no status bar. Go to the > library (shortcut-U). Status bar is back. Return to the same document; > still got a status bar. Sony recommends that no-status-bar should be only

Re: fullscreen question

2004-01-05 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
> Versus >1. User is in Library, status on side >2. User goes to document, /t u twice to banish status >3. User returns to library which STILL has status on side, simply > because it always does. (I can't make it go away at any rate.) >5. User goes to document... status is gone. I

Re: fullscreen question

2004-01-05 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
I made a bug report for this at: http://bugs.plkr.org/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1036 I also attached a test version that seems to fix the problem. Please try out all combinations (Exit/enter direct into document. Exit/enter direct into library. Etc.) and let me know if it fixes the problem. If

Re: Return from external links form using different controls

2004-01-05 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Michael Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I should probably add that right now it is only the left "arrow" that > works for the fiveway (should change that so that it uses the RotSelect > method in case you have rotated the screen), Actually, shouldn't it be any arrow that, after RotSelect,

documentation

2004-01-05 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
n... I suspect other developers do, too. Alex -- 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

Re: Rotate support (was: Return from external links form using different controls)

2004-01-05 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Michael Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: > > The jogdial and keyboard also need rotation handling. > > And the custom font handling ;-) One reason I never use the rotate > support (and don't even inc

AbsoluteWord

2004-01-06 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
AbsoluteWord has put up a nice page about Plucker's dictionary support: http://www.absoluteword.com/plucker/ Maybe we can just grab their animated screenshot and use it in our news article about it? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy Georgetown University Washingto

bug report idea?

2004-01-06 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Would it be possible to have something like the "contact the developers" option pop up an email that has headings for the various parts of a bug report, and then have that email get automatically routed to the bugtracker? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy

compiling with cunit support

2004-01-07 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
PalmCUnit.o: In function `PilotMain': PalmCUnit.c:465: multiple definition of `PilotMain' viewer.o:viewer.c:732: first defined here collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [viewer] Error 1 -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057-1133 U.S.A

pushedChar

2004-01-07 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
pushedChar. The code would become simpler to maintain then. Alex -- 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

Re: pushedChar

2004-01-07 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Alexander R. Pruss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Currently unicode is handled via pushedChar in paragraph.c. This is yet > another variable whose state needs to be kept track of while rendering text. > I would suggest that GetNextToken() should isntead return the unicod

Re: compiling with cunit support

2004-01-07 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
> You haven't configured it correctly; the PilotMain in viewer.c is > replaced with the PilotMain from PalmCUnit when HAVE_PALMCUNIT is > defined. Is configuring just a matter of ./configure --with-palmcunit=palmcunitsrcdirectory ? Alex ___ plucker-dev

Re: dict lookup committed

2004-01-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Looks good to me. It's nice to see other uses found for the code. Alex -- 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

Re: fullscreen again

2004-01-09 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Well, once you set one document to start in fullscreen, they all will until it's turned off. - Original Message - From: "Ruben Malchow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 9:59 AM Subject: fullscreen again hello list, i already mailed alexander, s

Re: fullscreen again

2004-01-09 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Is there any way to share prefs databases? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University || www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85 Washington, DC 20057|| U.S.A

slow library scrolling

2004-01-10 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
rectangle. Any thoughts, objections, alternatives? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University || www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85 Washington, DC 20057

bug-like thingy

2004-01-10 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
/* There is some problem with hi-res clipping on Sony units */ RotSetClip( &viewportBounds ); else RotSetClip( clipRect ); RotCharClipRange( clipRect->topLeft.y, clipRect->extent.y ); } } That is if there are no objections. Al

optimization

2004-01-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
tapping not work as nicely as it could). I'm going to check, either in uncompress.c or document.c, whether the current record is already uncompressed. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057-1133 U.S.A. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] o

Re: optimization

2004-01-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
OK. Alex -- 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 -- "Philoso

clipping, and paragraph.c

2004-01-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
) ); After Snippet A has executed, ( measureOnly && DO_LAYOUT(...) ) can only evalute to true providing RotTopLeft(Y) + RotExtentY() <= tContext->cursorY, and so the if in Snippet B cannot be triggered. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department

work lookup optimization

2004-01-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
To optimize word lookup responsiveness (how quickly the highlight shows up on screen), one wants to minimize the amount of re-rendering that is done in response to a tap. Here's a patch that does that. Comments are welcome! -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy Georgetown Unive

removals

2004-01-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
(Unlikely since the slowest autoscroll speed would still be too fast for reading a whole page.) Mike, should this be removed? Alex -- 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

Re: removals

2004-01-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
> When the original autoscroll support was written, people requested > autoscroll backwards because of some pages that were written that way, > like some of the discussion websites where the oldest entries are at the > bottom. I still have a hard time imagining how one would use it. The text wo

palmcunit

2004-01-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Well, I finally got palmcunit compiled! I ran it on the current cvs tree on Pose:M505. One failure: group: ExternalForm test: Back (fiveway) test/externalformtest line 239 Condition should be true: ExternalLinksFormHandleEvent( &event ) Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philos

section

2004-01-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Neither skins.[ch] (my fault) nor font.[ch] specifies a section for its functions. I'll fix the former. Is there any reason not to fix the latter? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057-1133 U.S.A. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] o

Re: removals

2004-01-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
> BTW, Alex, nice work on Bible+! Thanks. That raises a question. I'd like to extend grayfont.c to work with Bible+ and any other apps that don't have various hires routines that Plucker has. The easiest way to do this would involve a bunch of #ifdefs. This would mean, though, that grayfont.c w

Re: removals

2004-01-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
> I wouldn't use backward scrolling (I don't think I ever have). You can > look for the original thread in the archives to see the full discussion > about it including the comments from those who desired the feature. Alas, I can't find it in the archives... Maybe we could just make the page- and

Re: removals

2004-01-12 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Michael Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: > > The easiest way to do this would involve a bunch of #ifdefs. > > This would mean, though, that grayfont.c would end up having in it some > > code, though not

Re: Odd viewer paging behavior

2004-01-14 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
A couple of handspring OS3.5 crash bugs have been fixed in 1.6.2. You should try that first. Alex -- 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

Re: Plucker Plugin Interface

2004-01-17 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
27; files. > > Sounds great. Look forward to trying it out. > > Best wishes, > Robert > ___ > plucker-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev > -- Dr. Alexander R. P

Re: Plucker Plugin Interface

2004-01-18 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "David A. Desrosiers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My concern here is that contributors/companies circumvent the > functions provided by Plucker, or add additional useful features, by > writing their own non-Free plugins. On the other hand, it'd be handy to be able to write one's own plugins for pr

Re: Plucker Plugin Interface

2004-01-18 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Looks nice (apart from the help texts that are taken from the cleaner!) I think ideally it should have an editable database of programs that it can launch, preloaded with the items already there. One way to do this is have a drop-down list of program entries, with four buttons under it: select

DRM

2004-01-18 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
one could always compile a custom version of Plucker that instead of loading the hotsync name from the OS has the hotsync name hardcoded.) Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057-1133 U.S.A. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] online papers and

Re: DRM

2004-01-19 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Michael Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > That won't happen, since record-loading won't be included in the > module support. Why would there be a need for such a feature? To > read DOC documents? You can already do that using different DOC > readers (released under GPL). Plucker is generally

Re: DRM

2004-01-19 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Michael Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Then do what I do and convert DOC documents into Plucker documents... By the way, what happened to your experimental code that allowed viewing of DOC documents? I suppose, too, now that there is support for filters in the python parser, one could a

proposal: exact anchors

2004-01-20 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
use paragraph-based anchors or exact anchors, and then instead of storing paragraph numbers, store character offsets. I am not sure I know enough Python to do this myself, though. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057-1133 U.S.A. e-ma

Re: PPI

2004-01-20 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Can you save custom plugin info? Or maybe have a pop-up list of the last ten custom plugins, like on the search form? Alex -- 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

Re: Exact anchors

2004-01-20 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
e it or anything? Should the > parser request any special decoration for anchor > targets? One can just do whatever it does for other anchors. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: proposal: exact anchors

2004-01-20 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
HTML documents (I assume) the named anchors are at the beginning of a text. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University

Re: cvs checkout/configure problem

2004-01-20 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
You need to run autoreconf or autoconf first. Alex On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Ruben Malchow wrote: > alexander, > > this is fine - but it doesn't compile. it doesn't even configure correctly: -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || onl

Re: Tungsten T3

2004-01-20 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Rolf Bitzer wrote: > On my TungstenT3 I install Plucker 1.6.2. hires viewer, but the programm did > not start with 320x480 resolution. What can I do. Be patient--we'll get around to it eventually. :-) Or use codediver, I suppose. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss

Re: proposal: exact anchors

2004-01-21 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
> > This just doesn't seem to be the right way of handling HTML named > > anchors, even if it works for most documents because of the accident > > that in most HTML documents (I assume) the named anchors are at the > > beginning of a text. > > Lots of HTML is written poorly. We can't do much to hel

Re: proposal: exact anchors

2004-01-22 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Michael Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Changes to the Plucker format should be done very carefully, i.e. I > want a complete description of what this change would require and any > consequences from adding it (backwards compatibility is VERY important). Is this backwards compatibility for

Re: exact anchors - what is a paragraph

2004-01-22 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
> What is a Plucker paragraph? Just an internal data structure of how > documents are represented? Yes. > Does a Plucker paragraph always cause a line > break at the beginning or end of the paragraph when viewing the > document? Currently yes. One could, though, change the way things are render

Re: exact anchors - how much to display

2004-01-22 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
> (1) No more than two or three lines of previous context. > (2) Nothing from a previous sentence. (Or only one sentence?) > (3) Nothing before (including?) a previous anchor. > > Ideally, this would be done by the viewer (which knows the > font and screen size), but if it is too ugly, then the

Re: exact anchors - what is a paragraph

2004-01-22 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
> > and would require more extensive revision to the code than my exact > > anchor patch which was very small. > > I rather do an "extensive" change to the viewer than making an > "extensive" change to the Plucker format. Whether it really requires > an extensive change to the viewer remains to be

Re: exact anchors - what is a paragraph

2004-01-22 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Michael Nordstrom wrote: > I rather do an "extensive" change to the viewer than making an > "extensive" change to the Plucker format. Is adding one more function to the format an "extensive" change? Alex ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: plucker-dev digest, Vol 1 #539 - 15 msgs

2004-01-22 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Jim Jewett: > If we included length-of-target-text, it could be handled the same > way that search results are. It could be highlighted/underlined/ > colorchanged. Except that no desktop browsers highlight the target, and so this might be a little confusing. > Alexander R. Pruss: &g

Re: proposal: exact anchors

2004-01-22 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
> If we have to (and I'm not saying we do). Perhaps the best way to handle > exact Anchors is to add a new function code 0x0E (Anchor + 6). Why 6? We only need two bytes of data for the exact location. It still seems easiest to me just to add a new function that codes the location of the anchor

exact anchor patch - v.2

2004-01-23 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
(e.g., text on last screenful), or else will try to make the link's target conspicuous in some other consistent way. It is to be guaranteed, in any case, that any text right after the target byte be displayed on the screen. -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy Georgetown U

Re: exact anchor patch - v.2

2004-01-23 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
I forgot the patch. exactAnchor2.diff Description: Binary data

Re: exact anchor patch - v.2

2004-01-23 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
One piece of unclarity: > This function MUST follow right after a 0x00 0x0C b1 b2 b3 b4 Should be: "If present, this function MUST..." Alex ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev

Re: exact anchor patch - v.3

2004-01-23 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
> I'd prefer for it to precede the DoNamedAnchor function because if it isn't > there I won't have to waste time looking for it. I like that myself. V.3 of patch enclosed. Again, compiles but not tested. So, a new specification is this: 0x00 0x9A byte1 byte2 (DoSetTargetByteOffset) If it is

Re: Cache

2004-01-23 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
this myself a couple of months ago, and failed--it still crashed. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University || www.georgetown.edu/facul

Re: Cache

2004-01-23 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Blake Winton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (oldest * largest) first? :) Now that I think about, plain oldest first is probably good enough. :-) Alex ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-

Re: proposal: exact anchors

2004-01-24 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Michael Nordstrom wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: > > Why 6? We only need two bytes of data for the exact location. > > The function code Chris suggested has the benefit that we can drop > the old named anchor function code in the f

overclock API

2004-01-24 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
at should go into the official tree. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University || www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap

PalmFontConv help needed

2004-01-24 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
g to re-do it in any other language, that's fine. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University || www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85 Washing

Re: overclock API

2004-01-24 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
d gets phenomenal battery life.) I know. I am one of the few users who uses the search function in a heavy way. If I can shave 15 seconds off a 45 second search time, that's very nice. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and

Re: proposal: exact anchors

2004-01-25 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Michael Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Jan 24, 2004, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: > > Why not just have a new anchor function that takes two bytes of data > > As I pointed out the anchor function code using 2 bytes of data is > already used for norma

Re: Feature freeze

2004-01-25 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Michael Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > #656 Font line spacing / paragraph spacing should be reassessed Changed to "feature request". > #665 Fatal exception when viewing hi-res images. > #670 Change of file destination, document list not updated > #775 Speed for Search seems s

Re: Feature freeze

2004-01-25 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: "Alexander R. Pruss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > #1048 text position off around segment boundary > > This is a picky little thing. I am not quite sure what to do with it. The > problem is that normally Plucker keeps the current file position quite well

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