font idea

2003-06-06 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
). Any thoughts? 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

non-armlet search speed

2003-06-06 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
since I debugged the armlet initially as a 68K routine.) But I don't know if anybody but other than me cares about the search speed. 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

order of files in python distiller

2003-05-27 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
that the search be orderly.) 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

Re: order of records in the plucker database

2003-05-27 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Bill, If you look at the source of the class Mapper, in the file PyPlucker/Writer.py, you will see the code which does the actual record-id assignment. Yes. I am looking at the fragment: for (url, doc) in collection.items(): self._get_id_for_doc(doc) _get_id_for_doc

Re: order of records in the plucker database

2003-05-28 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Alternately, I suppose, I could add to the collection a field (or whatever one calls it in Python) giving the time and date (or just a sequential number) that the file got added in, and sort by that. I guess I might just have to learn some Python. :-( Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail

quick-and-dirty utf8 substitutions

2003-05-28 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
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python distiller questions

2003-05-29 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Does the python distiller also start thrashing under Linux with a lot of files or is this a Windows-only problem? I am trying to distill a site with 3000+ files, and is starts thrashing around file 1250. There isn't a newer perl distiller, is there? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail

Re: python distiller questions

2003-05-29 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
On Wed, 28 May 2003, David A. Desrosiers wrote: What site are you hitting with the Python distiller? A local copy (produced with wget) of newmanreader.org Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown

Re: order of files in python distiller (was: FW: plucker-dev digest, Vol 1 #312 - 5 msgs)

2003-05-29 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Alternately, one could just assign the key at the time that a file is fetched. There would still, however, be the issue of the fragments of a split-up file. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057-1133 U.S.A. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

more on the python distiller and memory problems

2003-05-29 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
on Linux. It can't seem to be able to handle jpg files. I must be missing something.) 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: Exclude/include links (was: getting changes in (and UTF-8))

2003-05-30 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
be wrong). I think the code should do a final check whether any of the links in the files fetched at maximum depth can be resolved to things already fetched. This would be nice. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page

Re: more on the python distiller and memory problems

2003-05-30 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Problem is windows-specific. :-) I got the Linux version running. -- 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

Re: Exclude/include links (was: getting changes in (and UTF-8))

2003-05-30 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Michael Nordstrom wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2003, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: Thus, suppose I want to get only two URLs from my home page: index.html and cv.html . Now, index.html links to cv.html and to many other things. Ideally, I could have an include list of two URLs

Re: Exclude/include links (was: getting changes in (and UTF-8))

2003-05-30 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
depth calculated from two different roots. 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

Re: Exclude/include links

2003-05-30 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
for free (i.e., without fetching more data from the web). The latter feature would be rather nice, since it would allow one to control precisely what order pages are put into the pdb. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home

adding options (was Re: strike-thru in libraryform)

2003-06-03 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
By the way, when new options get added, are people trying to keep the prefs backwards compatible, and if so, how? (When I added the multiple term search and transliteration search options, I used bitfields of an existing pref item, the case-free search one.) Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e

Re: strike-thru in libraryform

2003-06-03 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Still, considering the amount of code we are talking about (a few lines) we could even make it possible for the user to select whether the strike-through or bold font should be used for read documents. Or, more precisely, whether strike-through should be used for read documents, or bold for

Re: search armlet patch

2003-06-09 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
) \ | ( unsigned char* )(x)[1] 8 ) \ | ( unsigned char* )(x)[0] ) #define SWAP16(x) ( ( (unsigned short)(x) 8 ) | ( (unsigned short)(x) 8 ) ) Should we just include that? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: search armlet patch

2003-06-10 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
? 2. How hard will it be to merge in the branch? 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

dictionary

2003-06-10 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
original use. -- 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

RE: new unofficial hires prc ready

2003-06-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
: sed s/[bB][rR]/p/g (I think the rest of the distiller doesn't mind just a p instead of p.../p.) 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

SiteScooper and filters (was RE: new unofficial hires prc ready)

2003-06-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Thanks for the tip. The docs do say that SiteScooper does 1-, 2- and 3-level sites. That is rather limiting. Or does it do more? Even if it does, I think there would be no harm, and some gain, in just including a simple input pipe option in PyPlucker. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e

autoscroll speed

2003-06-12 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
compatibility, since some old values would no longer be valid. Another option is this. For autoscroll speeds between 0 and 100ms, we adjust by 10ms, and above that we go by 50ms. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page

Re: autoscroll speed

2003-06-12 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Robert OConnor wrote: Alexander R. Pruss wrote: I've noticed that the autoscroll speed doesn't have enough resolution. Currently, the minimum adjustment interval is 50ms. I'd be tempted to change that to 10ms or 20ms, except then one would have the use

Re: search armlet patch

2003-06-12 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
This sounds very good. I suggest we wait on this a little bit and apply the requisite changes after the armlet code gets revamped after Mike reviews it. I think we should keep the armlets/ directory because there may be more armlets coming. Alex ___

centering

2003-06-13 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
wife that forces left justification when desired, unless there is some way to fix this in the distiller. -- 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

tab

2003-06-13 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
idea of just making TAB generate a command stroke? (I tried it and it works fine.) 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

mainform vs. fullscreenform

2003-06-13 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
What's the difference between the mainform and the fullscreenform? -- 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: mainform vs. fullscreenform

2003-06-13 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
I wanted to know something more basic, but I think I figured it out from your message. Fullscreenform is for viewing full screen images, right? (I was wondering whether it is a version of mainform for viewing in what Sony calls full-screen mode, 320x480 without a status line.) Alex

paragraph end

2003-06-14 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Does every end of paragraph (except maybe the last in the record) have a 0x38 newline code after it in the plucker format? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University || www.georgetown.edu/faculty

fast 68k search -- help wanted

2003-06-15 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Summa Theologica. (It's not found :-) ) From memory, I think it took about six to ten minutes. Right now, it does it in 1 min 49 sec with the 8-bit optimized 68K search and 49 sec with the armlet search. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss Department of Philosophy Georgetown University Washington, DC

armlet entry point

2003-06-15 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
NativeFunction(). -- 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

more on benchmark

2003-06-15 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
I thought it might be easier to download a zip file of my fast search Plucker. The zip is at www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85/dl/plucker.zip Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University

Re: armlet entry point

2003-06-15 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Adam McDaniel wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:06:51AM -0400, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: Is there a way to specify the entry point to an armlet? With the way things are currently set up, it looks like the armlet enters at the first function in armlets/search.c

Re: paragraph end

2003-06-15 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
the first letter of the search string to 'a'). It was Test() that got invoked, not NativeFunction(). -- 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

Re: paragraph end

2003-06-15 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Michael Nordstrom wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2003, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: Oh well. I was hoping that I could detect the end of paragraph / end of line straightforwardly in the search code just while scanning the text. The record header includes everything you need

viewer/fonts/fontconv.c, etc.

2003-06-17 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
external font packages with unencumbring licenses. :-) -- 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: viewer/fonts/fontconv.c, etc.

2003-06-18 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, John Marshall wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 07:39:38AM -0400, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: I've spun off fontconv.c into a separate project, palmfontconv.sourceforge.net, so if you make changes to it, I would appreciate it if you also sent a patch to me. How much

Re: MetaRecord revamping suggestion (update)

2003-06-20 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
of system fonts should one allow for? People use fonthack, various localization software, Fonts4NX, etc. How much extra room should one leave on forms in case people change their system fonts in this way to something with wider metrics? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Prefs()

2003-06-20 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Changing the Prefs() function to a macro (and making the prefs structure global) saves almost 2K. Is there any reason not to do it? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University || www.georgetown.edu

fullscreen image problem

2003-06-21 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
You'll also find the binaries that cause the problem. 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

Re: hires bug

2003-06-22 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Adam McDaniel wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 09:50:38PM -0400, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: What to do? I guess we need to promote a whole bunch of Int16s to Int32s. This is going to degrade performance, but I see no cure. We need to do this in TextContext

Re: fullscreen image problem

2003-06-22 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Adam McDaniel wrote: The back button is still clickable, regardless of appearing.. it just so chooses to hide itself so the user can see whats under it :) But there was nothing under it. :-) Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy

Re: hires bug

2003-06-22 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
I committed a fix. Since the structure of the metadata has had to be changed, Cleaner MUST be run to delete the temp files before running this version. I don't know where to flag this in cvs. Henceforth, please store y-offsets measured in pixels, except for things that are on screen (or just

idea

2003-06-22 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
in half. (Initial experiments are not completely successful, because I don't fully understand the two functions, but there is a great speedup.) Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University

Re: idea

2003-06-23 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
about the speed of opening a new page. 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

Re: hires bug

2003-06-23 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Adam McDaniel wrote: There's a better way. Increment the MetaDocumentVersion in const.h Committed. Thanks. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University || www.georgetown.edu

Re: idea

2003-06-23 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
with the subscript stuff. I hope it's not broken now. There are imperfections in rendering in the large font, but they match what was there in the previous version. One of these days, I might fix it. Please report any bugs! -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy

bookmarks and session data, was Re: plucker-dev digest, Vol 1 #343- 7 msgs

2003-06-23 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
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Re: bookmarks and session data, was Re: plucker-dev digest, Vol 1#343 - 7 msgs

2003-06-23 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
. I just probably shouldn't be putting much more time into this. 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

Re: idea

2003-06-24 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
a couple of times, with the Search in all pages option. The seek time is the time from selecting an item in the search list, to that item showing up on the screen. Is that an acceptable length of time? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers

Re: yOffset, bookmarks, speed

2003-06-24 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
why the effect would be non-uniform. Another thought is that the ARM is fast enough here that something else is dominating. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University || www.georgetown.edu/faculty

verticalOffset

2003-06-25 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Is there any good reason why verticalOffset is always negative? 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: verticalOffset

2003-06-25 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
. But if there are complaints about the sign flip, I shan't do it. Alex On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Adam McDaniel wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:27:15AM -0400, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: Is there any good reason why verticalOffset is always negative? Its becuase its the relation of the top of the page to the top

Re: plucker-dev digest, Vol 1 #345 - 5 msgs

2003-06-25 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Here's how to test it. Search for some word that occurs a couple of times, with the Search in all pages option. The seek time is the time from selecting an item in the search list, to that item showing up on the screen. Is that an acceptable length of time? I'm using hires

Re: verticalOffset

2003-06-25 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
From: Adam McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:12:08PM -0400, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: But if there are complaints about the sign flip, I shan't do it. Well, my only concern is that it keeps the context of the *Offset values with each other. However it might be redundant

bug

2003-06-28 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Here's an interesting bug. Under POSE/NR70, minimizing the silkscreen also triggers the GESTURE_TAP gesture sometimes. (I think only the first time it's done during a session.) Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page

font change

2003-06-29 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Bookmarks, history and current position are all now supposed to be maintained across font changes. I committed this to cvs. Alas, one will lose old bookmarks if one upgrades. Oh well: it does let me resolve two bugs. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy

Re: possible bug

2003-06-30 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
with documents in RAM, and haven't yet tried on MS.) 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

rendering

2003-06-30 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
, on Sony NX/NR, we'll want to toggle the status bar, too), which I've added. Let me know about any bugs. -- 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

Re: rendering

2003-06-30 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Skins?? Yeah. Drop a prc with creator code Plkr and resource type Skin, and resources there (e.g., alternate renditions of icons) become available. However, you need to make sure that these resources aren't already in Plucker, so you might need a custom build (or to delete the resources). Not

ROM writing

2003-07-01 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
POSE/NR70 reports a write to ROM (in fact, several of them) in every dialog window. (E.g., search in page for a non-existent word ad get the write to ROM at the String not found dialog.) Should we be worried? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department

keyboard support

2003-07-05 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
. Alex p.s. I've noticed that a bunch of things in util.c don't conform to the coding guidelines. But who am I to speak? -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University || www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85

stylistic question

2003-07-05 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
, which is messy. if( condition1 condition2 ) { ConditionSuccessful(); } This is more readable but messy. if( condition1 condition2 ) { ConditionSuccessful(); } This seems OK, but the ) { line looks funny. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL

deleting and opening

2003-07-05 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
underground? I am worried when bugs disappear between builds with no one having fixed them. -- 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

255 doc limit?

2003-07-05 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
I've been looking at the library jogdial code, and noticed that a function uses UInt8 to store the row. Now, I haven't figured out quite how the code works, but is there a 255 document limit, or is this just an offset within the page? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: stylistic question

2003-07-05 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
pretty-printing so that the programmer can fix it himself). 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

unicode

2003-07-06 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
I need a document, ideally a .pdb, that I can test Plucker's unicode handling on. Does anyone have such a document? 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: unicode

2003-07-07 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
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Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

2003-07-07 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
in external font packages (not that we're distributing any, but I do have a cyrillic package if anybody wants one). 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

Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

2003-07-07 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
iSilo is the viewer. It has a free mode in which hyperlinks and various other things don't work./ Otherwise, one pays. iSiloX is the distiller. It's free. -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University

Re: Feature matrix (was Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo)

2003-07-07 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
too much Heck, I've been using the Unofficial Hires version since last November Well, if I am not mistaken, it's all in HEAD in CVS now, so as soon as the daily snapshot make is fixed, it will be available daily on plkr.org, no? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: unicode

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
for the text to display correctly. So there are character set records in the metadata section? That's very nice--I should be able to make use of this somewhere in the font support code. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home

Palm OS questions

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
(). But TxtGlueGetNextChar(), I expect, slows things down. If the answer to #2 is negative, then this is easy--I just scan ahead character by character to a null. I might just have to make some alternate code for 8-bit encodings. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

GetLineMetrics() code

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
correct behavior, because it will allow line-breaking at any two-byte length character. 2. Thus, how do we check that the character is indeed CRLF? What is the two-byte encoding of CRLF? 3. And why should there be a CRLF in the record given that we have function 0x38 instead? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R

soft hyphens

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
One of my recent optimizations involved using FntWordWrap() for some of the rendering. But now I have a worry. Maybe FntWordWrap() can't handle soft hyphens? Does anyone know? Also, does anyone know what FntCharsWidth() returns if there is a soft hyphen in the string? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R

yen and soft hyphen

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
. Or am I misunderstanding something in the code? 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

Re: GetLineMetrics() code

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
out by the distiller. 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

Re: yen and soft hyphen

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
character to the left of the last soft hyphen or space, and then run things through the standard GetLineMetrics() handler.) Perhaps text that does a lot of soft hyphen breaking will be processed a touch slowly, but it should render OK (though I haven't tried it). Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e

Re: SJ20 HiRes grayscale mode

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Using the general prefs settings to change to depth 4 doesn't work? 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: Palm OS questions

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
2. Can multi-byte encoded texts have nulls that do not signal the end of the string, i.e., nulls in the middle of multi-byte characters? (I assume there can't be nulls at the start of them--if there can, our code is in trouble.) Uhmm.. although this isn't my area of expertise, but I

Re: GetLineMetrics() code

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Michael Nordstrom wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2003, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: 1. This looks to me like it's checking for all two-byte length characters, not just CRLF. This surely isn't correct behavior, because it will allow line-breaking at any two-byte length character

Re: yen and soft hyphen

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Michael Nordstrom wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2003, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: Nevermind. I have a horrible memory for numbers--I misremembered the 0x00AD as a 0x00A5. I think we should mind anyway. Bug report #356 is a related problem for 0xAD and the Thai language. We

Re: GetLineMetrics() code

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Michael Nordstrom wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2003, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: I am also a bit puzzled as to why the special handling for two-byte characters? (Why not three- or four-byte ones?) Because that's what Matto implemented... If you want to see something else

Re: Palm OS questions

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
Is there anywhere one can ask to get an official answer to such a question, as my question whether middle or final bytes can be zero? -- 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: unicode

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
What is multibyte support about then? I found a reference to this in the archives, but it seems this is available in the I18N branch only. Unfortunately I still can't reach www.plkr.org or cvs.plkr.org to check this out. Multibyte support is for devices, e.g., Japanese ones (I think these are

Re: yen and soft hyphen

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Bill Janssen wrote: So there is no support for 0xA5 in the code (and nothing to remove); This is true for 0xA5. But it's not true for 0xAD. Support for the soft-hyphen is hardcoded in. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department

Re: Palm OS questions

2003-07-08 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
at the beginning of such a character will terminate things. (At least for the parts of the code that I've looked at in more detail, i.e., paragraph.c and search.c.) Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University

dialog half size

2003-07-09 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
); return true; } ErrEndCatch -- 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

record order

2003-07-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
dumb in the patch. Note: When I say work, I mean work while keeping the order right. As far as I can tell, my code will not fail in any really bad way even if the limits are exceeded--the documents will just be out of order. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: keyboard support - one place or many

2003-07-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
agree it would be nice. 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

binary search

2003-07-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
binary search over the index range max(1,K-(M-N)) to min(K,1+N), which will at least sometimes be a smaller range than 1 to K. (If the ids are assigned sequentially, then in fact we will hit right on the index!) -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department

Re: binary search

2003-07-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Michael Nordstrom wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2003, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: Currently we do a nice binary search for ids when looking for a record. But we can do a little better than that. Sure, but do we really *have to*, i.e. will you even notice the difference

more on distiller order

2003-07-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
A better solution is to make the spacing between the document file ids equal to (65536-10)/numitems. Any more suggestions? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University || www.georgetown.edu/faculty

PyPlucker memory

2003-07-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
under Windows, and a second time under Linux, so it's not an OS issue.) Does PyPlucker maybe keep all the texts in RAM rather than saving them to a cache? Can this be fixed? Alex -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page

Re: record order

2003-07-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
to keep the order straight. My mods seem to work, but need someone who knows Python to have a closer look at them. (I've got an updated patch if anybody wants to look at it.) If nobody volunteers, I guess I'll just use the patched version myself and see how it goes. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R

Re: PyPlucker memory

2003-07-11 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
.) This seems to be the thing to do if one wants to fix the RAM problem. 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

more on record order

2003-07-12 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
fetched rather than alphabetically. -- 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

multibyte char

2003-07-13 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
to dot is active). Oh well. 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

more on distiller order

2003-07-13 Thread Alexander R. Pruss
It looks like it's really VERY easy to get the distiller to do what I want. I just sort the collection before the initial round of id generation, and then I loop over subdocs and not just main docs. And that does it. Minimal code modification, and does the job. Alex -- Dr. Alexander R

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