Book People Archive

Re: (BP) Working through the maze of PDA formats for etexts...

Bill:  I'm using the Plucker viewer that came with the plucker suite: 
Plucker Viewer, Desktop and Parser.  It looks like a very interesting 
program and I like that it is GNU.  I think this would still be a problem 
to use for my site as each chapter is a stand-alone web page and to get all 
of one book a user would have to type in each web page (chapter) to  grab. 
  I don't think that's what I want to have the user do.  Too much work on 
the user's part, and I'm not interested in redesigning my html to make a 
pda function work better.  But I do think it's a good program and will be 
using it for my pda when I can.  Thanks!

Jeff Kelley
www.kellscraft.com

Bill Janssen wrote:
>> I'm looking for something that will allow downloadable, preformatted pda 
>> type docs to read well on a pda, not spider a site.  I think my site is 
>> just too deep for this to work well.  It seems to ignore most of the 
>> formatting at my site and doesn't return and words, just the main header 
>> table on  the index page.
> 
> Ah!  Don't try to spider your site.  Just point it at a single HTML
> page that's the content of the book you want to create.  It will then
> create a "downloadable, preformatted pda type doc" for you to put on
> your site for others to download and read.
> 
> In particular, look at http://code.plkr.org/docs/eb.html.  You can
> always specify --maxdepth=0 to keep it from following links to other
> pages.  What are you using as a viewer?
> 
> Bill