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Originally Posted by radleyp

Your 6th paragraph mentions all these features that are supposedly present in Plucker but not in iSilo. In fact, with the exception of "annotation" and "transliteration" (not sure about that one, since I don't know what you mean, are you talking about spelling non-latin alphabets in Latin?) they are all in iSilo, along with many other features.

Funny, last time I tried iSilo, I don't recall seeing it categorizing the same content in multiple places. I don't recall seeing it supporting Gestures, or dictionary lookup, or many other things I mentioned. If it does, feel free to send me a list, with screenshots, and I'll update the comparison page to reflect these recent additions that iSilo has made.

I have found Plucker and JPlucker to be unsatisfactory: I never could get the latter to work right, and as a reader iSilo is much better, with its really smooth scrolling and its large choice of fonts.

I'm not sure what "JPlucker" is, I've never heard of it. If you mean "JPluck", that is simply a GUI for creating Plucker content. It was written by someone in the community, and isn't part of "Plucker" itself. Plucker ships with the viewer, and the Python distiller. Anything else is ancillary. You're comparing the viewer itself (Plucker) with the tool used to create content for the viewer (JPluck). I'm not sure what you found "unsatisfactory" between the two of them, so feel free to enlighten us.

I would love to use the Plucker you are describing, but I have not found it.

Funny, hundreds of users would tend to disagree.. but I digress. You might want to try using a version of Plucker that is more current. It sounds like you're using quite an old version, because we've solved many of the issues you've mentioned here, months and months ago.

Anyway, use whatever works. If you prefer iSilo, use that. If you want more features, a faster, more-capable reader, use Plucker. If you don't like the GUI (JPluck), pick one of the other dozen or so methods to create content. You aren't limited to just one.