JohnO wrote: > > Day: > > We use this product <http://www.pageauthor.com> for our company CD > "catalog". Thanx for the link! I downloaded something, but now realize I cant run it; I dont run any of the windoz distros. But I'll havta go back to look for the screenshots when I have a little more time.
> Yes, it requires Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP on a > > * Intel� Celeron 300 MHz or equivalent > * 64 MB RAM > * 16Bit Color Video Graphics Adapter > * 100 MB free disk space > > However, you do have the presentation effect of turning a page. It looks cool. But I didnt see a bookmark function listed. > We have been using it since version 2.x and their upgrades are worth the > cost. Course with catalogues and other short works, that's no biggie. > Possibly you can find someone who has a Linux shareware version of a > similar presentation toolkit? Perhaps. who knows what's out there. I subbed to some author usenet lists, but they were all windoz users. The Linux crowd are all geeks who dont really care to read books. ANZI also requires a 16 color VGA, but a 386 w/ 2meg dram would prolly work. A 400 page novel would be a 300k download, and unzip to about 1 meg, including the display tools. There is no need to scroll the mouse to see the previous or next page. you can hold the mouse in the hand, left button for next page, right for a menu to save bookmark, go back a page, or whatever page you want. All that sort of thing should be feasible with curses, and the page display tool itself, (anzi.com) is only 816 bytes of assy. Most of that is just an array to set the appropriate foreground or background color of the text. Works with MS-dos 6, DR-DOS 7, Freedos 9 or 9. Part of it is aimed at the author, who can use any text format tool to reset the right margin at 39, and then port it to ANZI, which will split it into the two columns that look like the facing pages of a real book, doing it on the fly. The other tools which I have seen treated the whole screen as a unit, so that if you inserted text you either had to insert a whole page, or go back to typeset all the rest of the document. A huge pain. Just like html flows to the width of the screen, ANZI flows to the length, so it always starts the top of the right hand page with the correct line. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
