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diff --git a/noncore/apps/opie-reader/README b/noncore/apps/opie-reader/README deleted file mode 100644 index d091010..0000000 --- a/noncore/apps/opie-reader/README +++ b/dev/null @@ -1,162 +0,0 @@ -What is QT Reader? -================== - -QT Reader is an e-text reading program which understands several -varieties of PalmDoc format (types 1,2 and 4), zTxt, plain text and -gzipped text. - -In addition it supports its own very highly compressed format which is -based on ppm (regarded by many as the best available compression -technique) with modifications by Fabrice Bellard for speed and memory -efficiency and by myself to support random access on smaller -devices. I call this modified format ppms (for ppm, segmented). - -The ppms program which is used to produce ppms files from plain text -is available from http://www.timwentford.uklinux.net where there is -also a comparison of file sizes produced by several compression -methods. This is summarised below: - -Compression method Size in bytes Memory required to decompress -Plain text 573714 N/A -Makedoc (PalmDoc format) 329543 2k -ppms (default) 184187 350k -ppms (best) 151733 800k -bzip2 -1 180175 340k -bzip2 -9 154280 2.2M - -The default settings used here were chosen to suit the Agenda VR3. I -would expect the Zaurus to be able to use settings which give 170kb -file size and 500k memory without any problem. The format encodes the -settings used so the user may choose whatever suits them. I choose -based on the amount of memory required and on whether or not pageup -performance is acceptable. - -General Use -=========== - -Start it up and then choose "File/Open" from the menu. Select a -palmdoc, plain text, gzipped text or ppms file from the file selector -and use the cursor keys to page up/down (up/down keys) and to make the -text size comfortable (left/right keys) and thats it for most -uses. See below for more advanced use. - -What the Menu Options Do -======================== - -File -==== - -File operations live in this menu. - -Open Brings up the file selector to allow you to choose a - new file to read. -Info Displays info about the currently open file. Needs - reformatting. -Start Block Marks the text at the top of the currently displayed - page ready for copying. -Copy Block Copies all text from the mark to the bottom of the - currently displayed page to the clipboard. -Scroll Starts/stops autoscroll. The speed can be adjusted - using the up/down keys while autoscroll is on (page - up and down are still functional and can be activated - by using the up and down arrows on the task bar). -Jump Jumps to a specific offset in the file. If you note - down the current location from the File/Info display - you can then jump to the same position again using - this function (or you could bokmark it 8^)). -Page/Line scroll When this is On pressing the arrows (keys or - icons on the task bar) moves you a page at a time. - When this is off, pressing the arrows moves you a - line at a time. -Set Overlap Sets the number of lines of overlap between pages - when scrolling by page. -Set Dictionary When you tap on the screen the word under the - pointer is copied to the clipboard ready for pasting - into (e.g.) a dictionary program. Using this function - allows the word to be sent to compatible dictionary - programs direct. The format is exename/messagename - where exename is the name of the executable for the - dictionary program and messagename is the name of the - message it is expecting. You can get some idea of how - it works by using some debug functionality which I - deliberately left in QTReader. Set this to - uqtreader/info. - To deactivate it again, set it to /. -Find Brings up the search requester where you can enter a - regular expression to search (again) for. - -Format -====== - -Used to alter the way the text is reformatted before display. - -Strip CR Removes those pesky DOS crs from the file. -Strip HTML Uses a very simple minded filter to remove html mark-up. -Dehyphen Removes hyphens from e-texts which have been formatted to - fit on different sized displays by hyphenating words - which no longer appear at the end of the line. -Unindent Removes leading spaces from the beginning of paragraphs. -Re-paragraph Removes/adds line breaks as necessary to make the text - look nice on the display. -Double Space Adds an extra space between paragraphs. -Indent+ Increases the number of extra leading spaces inserted - before paragraphs. -Indent- Decreases the number of extra leading spaces inserted - before paragraphs. -Bold Sets the font to bold (if its supported by the currently - selected font). - -For e-texts from fictionwise I don't need any of these enabled. For -Project Gutenberg e-texts I enable Strip CR, Re-paragraph and either 3 lots -of indent+ and/or double space. - -Zoom Menu option not implemented but pops up an info box - telling you that left/right cursor keys will zoom - out/in. -Ideogram/Char grouping When selected, treats each character as a word - and enforces uniform character spacing - suitable for - many eastern character sets. When not selected, looks for - spaces in the text to identify words - suitable for most - western texts. (I'm not a language expert so forgive my, - probably inaccurate, generalisations). -Set Width Sets the character spacing as a percentage of the text - height to be used when in ideogram mode. Start at 100 and - experiment to find what you like best. -Encoding Allows you to choose from a variety of codings. Ascii is - actually unprocessed text so its precise behaviour may - depend on the machines locale setting. Palm and code page - 1252 are very similar and are useful if you have an etext - aimed at Palms or Windows machines which use an extended - character set - though you will need to use a unicode - enabled font to show all the characters. The U... fonts - are different varieties of unicode encodings. If you - don't know what that means you probably don't need them - (they allow texts to access the full range of characters - required for non US English languages). -Set Font Allows you to choose which font the text is displayed - in. Helvetica or smoothtimes are probably best for ascii type - texts, unifont or cyberbit (if you have installed them) - are best for extended character sets (other unicode fonts - may also be available but these are all I've found, so far). -Marks -===== - -Mark Saves the current position as a bookmark -Goto Allows selection of a bookmark to jump to. -Delete Deletes an unwanted bookmark from the current text. -Autogen Displays a box for entering a regular - expression which will be used to determine which - paragraphs (not lines) will be marked to allow jumping to - directly using the Goto option. The format options - described above are applied before the regular expression - matching is done. - This operation is performed in the background allowing - you to continue paging up/down the e-text. -Clear Deletes all in-memory bookmarks from the current document. -Save Saves the "in-memory" bookmarks to disk. -Tidy Deletes bookmark file for a document. The operations - above work on an in-memory copy of the bookmarks. This - option makes that copy more permanent (you will also be - prompted to save the bookmarks when closing a text if the - in-memory copy is different to the saved copy). - |