Hi Brahmanathaswami,
My code was begun back in LC 5.5 slowly making the transition through 6 and
then 7.
I think I still have a switch in there in case the stack is opened in LC 6 to
ensure it does some of the fudging required.
I have learnt in doing all this that standards (such as ePub 2) seem
Yep, Unicode is the future :-) It is also a considerable part of the
digital past already, just not so much LiveCode's.
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pursuant to my last long winded email.
I've boiled it down to something very simple
The company doing our ePubs is mixing
1) unicode HTML dec entities for diacriticals in the IAST roman char range
2) Unicode UTF strings for Tamil and Devanagari script
and
3) old fashioned punctuation in the r
Aloha, James:
great. thanks for this... seems we are each re-inventing the wheel here.
Your code is useful though.
I see you are still having to deal with the pesky "—" But only in
your TOC xml processing routines.
What I don't understand (which makes it hard to make good strategic
decisio
Hi Brahmanathaswami,
I wrote a sample stack that opens and displays pubs if that is of any use.
You can find it here...
http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/761/Epub-Opener
If it is of help, let me know :-)
James
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This works great! I get output like this:
awesome!
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Hi Brahmanathaswami,
This works on LC 6.7.3:
on mouseUp
put fld 1 into x
if the platform is not "MacOS" then
// not sure why this works
put isoToMac(x) into x
end if
put uniDecode(uniEncode(x,"UTF8")) into x
set the htmlText of fld 2 to x
end mouseUp
Presumably you have already tried SET THE HTML TEXT OF FIELD "BLAH" TO . . .
Richmond.
from my jail-broken, recycled iPad 1
On 26 Jul 2015, at 20:31, Brahmanathaswami wrote:
> We do a lot of work with the contents of ePubs. For those who don't know the
> spec:
>
> "someBook.epub" is just "s
We do a lot of work with the contents of ePubs. For those who don't know
the spec:
"someBook.epub" is just "someBook.zip"
which when inflated has a mini-portable web site based on responsive CSS
(all percentages). You get
someBook
/ops # "Open Package Structure"
/ fonts
/ images
/ styles
/ x
