Thank you very much for your posts regarding this topic. Your feedback will be
very helpful, I´m glad you find it interesting, this confirms the great
characteristics and features of LiveCode and the great community around it.
Saludos,
Javier Miranda V.
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I know LiveCode, being so powerful, can handle complex projects
involving lots of logic and structures, but is it suitable / practical
to use it for e-book production?
Saludos,
Javier Miranda V.
Like Jim said and Colin implied, "It depends on what you mean by eBook. "
We are deep into eBo
I'll be the wet blanket. If there are already economical epub converters out
there, or even free ones, then unless you include some functionality that is
unique, one might as the question, why?
http://www.2epub.com/
Bob
On Jan 29, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Javier Miranda V. wrote:
> Dear friends, ca
Javier,
It will be hard to do pure livecode solution for reading epubs, but if
you mix in some revbrowser magic, then it can be done easily. Just
unzip the epub container, rewrite some HTMLs to a temp place and load
them.
Andre
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Javier Miranda V.
wrote:
> As I c
As I can tell by your responses I find LC can effectively be used as tool for
e-book preparation and also as a reader. Thank you for your responses, now
it´s something related on establishing the scope of the project. The idea
would be to produce a reader capable to reading publications create
EPUB format is easy but it is full of namespaces. LiveCode can
generate and read epubs but you need some hacks to change those
namespaces. I did some research on that and so did Sivakatirswami.
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
> If the plan is to have LC just be a tool for g
If the plan is to have LC just be a tool for gathering the bits together, and
then to spit out an e-book that other tools can read, look at the EPUB format:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
If instead you want use LC as the book reader itself, and bring external text
into it and then format it
On Jan 29, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Javier Miranda V. wrote:
Dear friends, can you please give me your opinions on using LiveCode
for e-book production?. I know LiveCode, being so powerful, can
handle complex projects involving lots of logic and structures, but
is it suitable / practical to use
A week tomorrow is the 19th anniversary of me moving to the US. Just before
that date I had written the Expanded Books software, and the first task I had
when I moved was to cowrite an Expanded Books Toolkit, that would allow you to
publish your own Expanded Books.
If we could do all that in Hy
On Jan 29, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Javier Miranda V. wrote:
Dear friends, can you please give me your opinions on using LiveCode
for e-book production?. I know LiveCode, being so powerful, can
handle complex projects involving lots of logic and structures, but
is it suitable / practical to use i
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