Re: [Ql-Users] Aurora discussion
Hi Dave, MAC owner reporting, however not knowing the elegant solution I am unsure what you need the cables etc. for, I thought this was a software manual conversion issue On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Dave Park plasticu...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Dilwyn! For those who suggest elegant Windows solutions, I foil thee with my Mac! It seems I need a few custom cables, and to reset some jumpers, and a keyboard interface. As I need to make cables for me, maybe others need cables too. If so, it would be a lot cheaper for me to make a batch of ten of each, for example... Who needs what, and are they available anywhere else? Dave On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Dave Park wrote: To kick things off for this... Could someone kindly convert the Quill format manual to a format I can access, as I don't have a working Quill (or any of the Psion apps) for my QL... Then I'll be able to participate in my own discussion ;) Dave Hi Dave, I've sent Word DOC and PDF versions of both the Aurora Manual and Technical Guide to you privately. As I'm in the process of moving to my new PC and just found that the old HotMetalPro4 web page editor won't work on Win7-64bit (the installation program is rejected) I need to find another web page editor I'm comfortable with, ideally an HTML editor with a Tags view to flick between html source, tags view and WYSIWYG before I can resume updating my website to add these files there. Any suggestions for a reasonable free or cheap little editor? Until such time, I'll keep the old PC to hand just to update my website! Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Aurora discussion
Morning Dave, On 21/09/11 19:49, Dave Park wrote: For those who suggest elegant Windows solutions, I foil thee with my Mac! Ha! And I foil your Mac foiling attempts with my own cross platform QStripper tool! ;-) 1. Go to http://qt.nokia.com/downloads and download QT for Max OS-X 10.6 (or later) 64 bit. 2. Install. 3. Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/qstripper/files/qstripper/ and get the (latest) source code for QStripper. 4. Unpack. 5. Open the QT Creator IDE and load the qstripper.pro file, compile. Now you have a completely MAC version of QStripper which allows you to load (multiple) Quill files and can export them in many formats: * PDF (Text based, not bitmap) * DocBook XML * Text * HTML The DocBook XML output can be further processed, with a couple of additional tools, into: * HTML (one file) * HTML (sectioned) * PDF (Better than default PDF above) * ePub * RTF * WordML * Etc. Brief details in qstripper.html. I know it compiles on Windows and Linux, I'd be interested to know if it compiles on MAC as well, unchanged. Once you have QStripper working, why not try my cross platform QXL.WIN explorer program QxlWin? At present there's not an official download, but you can get a tarball from http://qxlwin.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/qxlwin/?view=tar or, alternatively, Subversion (Version Control) checkout is possible by running svn co https://qxlwin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/qxlwin qxlwin. Open qxlwin.pro in QT Creator, copile, run. Open a qxl.win style hard disc and explore Again, works fine on Windows and Linux, be interesting to know if it works on MACs too. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Aurora discussion
To kick things off for this... Could someone kindly convert the Quill format manual to a format I can access, as I don't have a working Quill (or any of the Psion apps) for my QL... Then I'll be able to participate in my own discussion ;) Dave On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Dave Park plasticu...@gmail.com wrote: I have been looking at the assorted hardware I have and the online literature, and decided that the info doesn't cut it. I look at the knowledge and experience of the members on this list and know we can do a lot better. Take an example: The Aurora has a manual in Quill format, which I cannot access. However, the OS, drivers and etc have developed a lot since then, so I am sure those who know could outline the current state of play and answer questions from the peanut gallery - often what people want to know is not in the manual. Also, often, quirks and bugs have come to light, or been fixed, and people just don't know... What comes out of it is a repository of fresh information and discussion and a lot of people who can then take the info and use it to flesh out the QL wiki and technical library. To that end I think if we choose one interesting piece of hardware and one interesting piece of software each month, and discuss them in detail... I suggest to get the ball rolling, for the hardware we discuss Aurora, and for software, we discuss QPCII. The AUrora discussion can continue in this thread and QPCII discussion in a new thread I'll start in a minute. Dave ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Aurora discussion
On 21/09/2011 04:44, Dave Park wrote: To kick things off for this... Could someone kindly convert the Quill format manual to a format I can access, as I don't have a working Quill (or any of the Psion apps) for my QL... Then I'll be able to participate in my own discussion ;) Dave On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Dave Parkplasticu...@gmail.com wrote: I have been looking at the assorted hardware I have and the online literature, and decided that the info doesn't cut it. I look at the knowledge and experience of the members on this list and know we can do a lot better. Take an example: The Aurora has a manual in Quill format, which I cannot access. However, the OS, drivers and etc have developed a lot since then, so I am sure those who know could outline the current state of play and answer questions from the peanut gallery - often what people want to know is not in the manual. Also, often, quirks and bugs have come to light, or been fixed, and people just don't know... What comes out of it is a repository of fresh information and discussion and a lot of people who can then take the info and use it to flesh out the QL wiki and technical library. To that end I think if we choose one interesting piece of hardware and one interesting piece of software each month, and discuss them in detail... I suggest to get the ball rolling, for the hardware we discuss Aurora, and for software, we discuss QPCII. The AUrora discussion can continue in this thread and QPCII discussion in a new thread I'll start in a minute. Dave Hello Dave, I use a PC version of XCHANGE, Quill was also marketed by Psion separately as part of PC Four. Quill files can be zipped, changed to PC format and then opened in PC Quill/Xchange. Bryan H ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Aurora discussion
On 21 Sep 2011 at 16:52, Bryan Horstmann wrote: On 21/09/2011 04:44, Dave Park wrote: To kick things off for this... Could someone kindly convert the Quill format manual to a format I can access, as I don't have a working Quill (or any of the Psion apps) for my QL... Then I'll be able to participate in my own discussion ;) Dave On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Dave Parkplasticu...@gmail.com wrote: I have been looking at the assorted hardware I have and the online literature, and decided that the info doesn't cut it. I look at the knowledge and experience of the members on this list and know we can do a lot better. Take an example: The Aurora has a manual in Quill format, which I cannot access. However, the OS, drivers and etc have developed a lot since then, so I am sure those who know could outline the current state of play and answer questions from the peanut gallery - often what people want to know is not in the manual. Also, often, quirks and bugs have come to light, or been fixed, and people just don't know... What comes out of it is a repository of fresh information and discussion and a lot of people who can then take the info and use it to flesh out the QL wiki and technical library. To that end I think if we choose one interesting piece of hardware and one interesting piece of software each month, and discuss them in detail... I suggest to get the ball rolling, for the hardware we discuss Aurora, and for software, we discuss QPCII. The AUrora discussion can continue in this thread and QPCII discussion in a new thread I'll start in a minute. Dave Hello Dave, I use a PC version of XCHANGE, Quill was also marketed by Psion separately as part of PC Four. Quill files can be zipped, changed to PC format and then opened in PC Quill/Xchange. Or use Quill Stripper or Quill View in Windows. You can save it in HTML- DOC or TXT-format. Or printen to a PDF-file. Sjef van de Molengraaf ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Aurora discussion
Dave Park wrote: To kick things off for this... Could someone kindly convert the Quill format manual to a format I can access, as I don't have a working Quill (or any of the Psion apps) for my QL... Then I'll be able to participate in my own discussion ;) Dave Hi Dave, I've sent Word DOC and PDF versions of both the Aurora Manual and Technical Guide to you privately. As I'm in the process of moving to my new PC and just found that the old HotMetalPro4 web page editor won't work on Win7-64bit (the installation program is rejected) I need to find another web page editor I'm comfortable with, ideally an HTML editor with a Tags view to flick between html source, tags view and WYSIWYG before I can resume updating my website to add these files there. Any suggestions for a reasonable free or cheap little editor? Until such time, I'll keep the old PC to hand just to update my website! Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Aurora discussion
Thank you Dilwyn! For those who suggest elegant Windows solutions, I foil thee with my Mac! It seems I need a few custom cables, and to reset some jumpers, and a keyboard interface. As I need to make cables for me, maybe others need cables too. If so, it would be a lot cheaper for me to make a batch of ten of each, for example... Who needs what, and are they available anywhere else? Dave On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Dave Park wrote: To kick things off for this... Could someone kindly convert the Quill format manual to a format I can access, as I don't have a working Quill (or any of the Psion apps) for my QL... Then I'll be able to participate in my own discussion ;) Dave Hi Dave, I've sent Word DOC and PDF versions of both the Aurora Manual and Technical Guide to you privately. As I'm in the process of moving to my new PC and just found that the old HotMetalPro4 web page editor won't work on Win7-64bit (the installation program is rejected) I need to find another web page editor I'm comfortable with, ideally an HTML editor with a Tags view to flick between html source, tags view and WYSIWYG before I can resume updating my website to add these files there. Any suggestions for a reasonable free or cheap little editor? Until such time, I'll keep the old PC to hand just to update my website! Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Aurora discussion
On 21/09/2011 16:44, Dave Park wrote: To kick things off for this... Could someone kindly convert the Quill format manual to a format I can access, as I don't have a working Quill (or any of the Psion apps) for my QL... Then I'll be able to participate in my own discussion ;) Dave On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Dave Parkplasticu...@gmail.com wrote: I have been looking at the assorted hardware I have and the online literature, and decided that the info doesn't cut it. I look at the knowledge and experience of the members on this list and know we can do a lot better. Take an example: The Aurora has a manual in Quill format, which I cannot access. However, the OS, drivers and etc have developed a lot since then, so I am sure those who know could outline the current state of play and answer questions from the peanut gallery - often what people want to know is not in the manual. Also, often, quirks and bugs have come to light, or been fixed, and people just don't know... What comes out of it is a repository of fresh information and discussion and a lot of people who can then take the info and use it to flesh out the QL wiki and technical library. To that end I think if we choose one interesting piece of hardware and one interesting piece of software each month, and discuss them in detail... I suggest to get the ball rolling, for the hardware we discuss Aurora, and for software, we discuss QPCII. The AUrora discussion can continue in this thread and QPCII discussion in a new thread I'll start in a minute. Dave ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm I have it in Word format - drop me an email and I will send it to you. Roy -- Roy Wood ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
