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Showing results 1 to 25 of 48 - Search took 0.00 seconds. Search: Posts Made By: RootlessAgrarian
Forum: OpenInkpot 03-02-2010, 02:08 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,433
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
Actually I second the motion. I knit, and it...

Actually I second the motion. I knit, and it would be delightful to be able to read and knit smoothly, turning the pages with a foot (or even bite) switch. A dedicated DIYer could possibly install...
Forum: OpenInkpot 03-02-2010, 02:02 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,949
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
OI stable burn version, V3

I recently decided I like OI well enough to burn firmware rather than running the "live" version off the SD card. I grabbed a recent daily (02-28 I believe) and have not been happy with the result. ...
Forum: OpenInkpot 03-02-2010, 02:01 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 1,887
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
OI stable burn version, V3

Oops. double post. not sure how that happened.
Forum: Sigil 02-15-2010, 04:06 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 11,883
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
My apologies, no sarcasm was intended. I have...

My apologies, no sarcasm was intended. I have written a lot of GUI apps that were not for newbies at all, just convenience-tools for people who had to have expert knowledge well in hand before using...
Forum: Sigil 02-14-2010, 10:54 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 11,883
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
Ah, I see -- Sigil is intended for use by people...

Ah, I see -- Sigil is intended for use by people who already know the XML spec for EPUB? OK. I assumed it was meant to hide expert knowledge and guide the newbie -- in which case, user...
Forum: Sigil 02-14-2010, 01:45 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 11,883
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
A) you people are Wonderful. Bouquets and...

A) you people are Wonderful. Bouquets and heartfelt thanks all around.

B) case-sensitive tags in XHTML/XML, doh! my bad. got too used to loose, case-insensitive HTML parsers.

C) after fixing...
Forum: Sigil 02-12-2010, 08:06 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 11,883
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
You mean this line 13? :) ummm, what...

You mean this line 13? :)



ummm, what part of <h1>blah blah blah blah</h1> is unclosed?

I have a feeling I'm going to feel insanely stupid when I finally realise what it is I'm looking at...
Forum: Sigil 02-12-2010, 08:02 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 11,883
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
found and downloaded epubcheck... which just...

found and downloaded epubcheck... which just confuses me even more.


java -jar /Users/de/Documents/EPC/epubcheck-1.0.3.jar f AgCiv.epub
Epubcheck Version 1.0.3

ERROR:...
Forum: Sigil 02-12-2010, 07:49 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 11,883
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
I tip my hat to your self-restraint :-) clearly...

I tip my hat to your self-restraint :-) clearly there's a big vision behind Sigil -- didn't realise that the coding team was, er, an army of one! and I'm still not sure whether this is wholly a...
Forum: Sigil 02-12-2010, 07:42 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 11,883
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
"files declared in the manifest," I blush to...

"files declared in the manifest," I blush to admit, is new language to me as an epub n00b.

if "the manifest" = content.opf, then each of the xhtml files is indeed noted as an item in that list. ...
Forum: Sigil 02-12-2010, 05:52 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 11,883
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
New to Sigil, frustrated: bad TOC

As a clueless n00b I have been wandering about in Google-land trying to find out how to generate a working TOC for an epub doc. I have a readable epub doc with many sections and chapters and would...
Forum: OpenInkpot 01-27-2010, 01:37 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 1,973
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
OI hangs solid (Hanlin v3)

After staying up and happy for several days, my (daily) release of OI-live failed.

It had been ssh'd into about 7 or 8 times to transfer files, and rebooted about 5 or 6 times, over the course of...
Forum: Workshop 01-26-2010, 12:31 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,773
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
I built Tesseract with no difficulty -- it works...

I built Tesseract with no difficulty -- it works fine on its included test images, which probably doesn't say much. The stable 2.04 version can only read TIFF, but the slightly unstable v3, with...
Forum: Workshop 01-24-2010, 04:09 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,773
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
Googling around I have discovered that GOCR is...

Googling around I have discovered that GOCR is still alive, and that Google (the place I would like to have spent my career if I could go back and start over!) is distributing Tesseract. both are...
Forum: Workshop 01-23-2010, 08:44 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,773
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
no support for osx/linux? yep, cheesy :-)

yeah well, WinDoze-only-ware is categorised in my personal field notebook as cheesy :D just an idiosyncratic bias.

More seriously though... I do wonder why the free software community, which has...
Forum: Workshop 01-23-2010, 02:25 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,773
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
Current state of OCR/scanner tech?

I have a number of Very Old Books which I'd like to scan non-destructively (these are collectible editions, long OOP and OOC, which I'd like to preserve for my own records and to contrib to PG).
...
Forum: HanLin eBook 01-19-2010, 05:44 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 3,330
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
Question V3, BeBook, BeBook Mini... OI?

I'm getting attached enough to my V3 with OI, starting to think of having a spare/loaner (and more memory). The lowest price I can find on equivalent device is the BeBook (even with shipping it's...
Forum: HanLin eBook 01-19-2010, 05:19 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 2,908
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
Question Hanlin v3 to v3ext upgrade?

V3 (the earlier model) has significantly less internal memory.

V3ext seems to be the same device but with a bigger SIMM (or whatever).

Has anyone upgraded their own V3 with more memory? Is...
Forum: OpenInkpot 01-19-2010, 02:40 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,886
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
Red face I opened a ticket just for the sake of learning...

I opened a ticket just for the sake of learning the ticket system but the more I play with the epub reader in OI, the more I suspect that just about everything I'm asking for is already there :-) ...
Forum: OpenInkpot 01-19-2010, 02:38 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 5,279
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
Smile Yippee!! working!

larger rootfs does the trick, I can now start madshelf and at last my OI behaves like the wiki User Guide examples! hooray for dottedmag.

I am still doing experiments with fonts and have found...
Forum: OpenInkpot 01-17-2010, 01:24 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,886
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
Font selection for epubs?

I am not sure how tricky a feature this would be to implement... but...

Ideally, my "perfect" ebook reader would allow me to remember -- per book -- what font I wanted to read that book in. It's...
Forum: OpenInkpot 01-17-2010, 12:28 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 5,279
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
Question bigger rootfs -- are we there yet?

I checked the OI ticket list and didn't see anything that looked like it.
(love it that OI process is so open, tickets and IRC all visible)

is it time to try a new daily or should I wait a while...
Forum: OpenInkpot 01-15-2010, 10:19 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 3,305
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
:rofl: well you know what they say: "If you...

:rofl: well you know what they say: "If you have to ask, you can't afford it!"
Forum: OpenInkpot 01-15-2010, 02:02 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 3,305
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
Question OI: ssh over USB/IP, OSX Leopard

I notice that each time I connect my Hanjin running OI to the USB port, I get a new virtual ethernet device: en2, en3, en4 etc. I have to configure the device each time.

Is there any way to get...
Forum: OpenInkpot 01-14-2010, 02:02 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 5,279
Posted By RootlessAgrarian
I think I'll wait a few days then... maybe...

I think I'll wait a few days then... maybe Saturday?
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