Gutenberg Reader

[Bernard Devlin]

Hi Andre,
WINE has come along in leaps and bounds.  I run Lotus Notes under WINE on my
netbook.

I'm pleased to hear that a Rev app runs under WINE.  I'd be interested to
see if you could run the Rev IDE under WINE too.  I tried 6 months ago and
it wouldn't work (lots of the button icons were blacked out, for example).

Bernard

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:

> Peter,
>
> thanks for the software. Just to let you know, it actually runs fine
> on Linux under WINE. I downloaded the windows versions, launched it
> and it worked surprisingly well under WINE, I never thought WINE had
> hit such maturity.
>
> Check your main screen here:
>
> http://andregarzia.com/shots/screenshot_03.png
>
> And text viewing here:
>
> http://andregarzia.com/shots/screenshot_04.png
>
> I guess you're using RevBrowser for the Project Gutenberg website
> display, I was amazed to see RevBrowser working under linux thru
> WINE...
>
> Interesting times indeed. For those that doesn't know WINE is a
> compatibility layer that allows linux to run unmodified windows
> software, WINE is not an emulator, it translates win32 calls into
> something linux like.
>
> Cheers
> andre
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Peter Brigham MD <pmbrig at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I've uploaded a stack to my userspace at RevOnline (user name pmbrig)
> called
> > The Gutenberg Reader. Bug reports, comments, and feedback are
> appreciated.
> >
> > From the help text:
> >
> > "The Gutenberg Reader is literally an entire library of over 30,000
> volumes,
> > right on your desktop. Well, almost literally. The Reader is designed to
> > import and display etexts generated by Project Gutenberg™. These are free
> > public domain texts available online — the Gutenberg catalog has over
> 30,000
> > books (and growing), and with their partners and affiliates makes over
> > 100,000 titles available to anyone with internet access. Any of the
> > Gutenberg texts are accessible within a couple minutes from within the
> > Reader.
> >
> > "The Gutenberg pages are actually designed to be viewed with any web
> > browser, without any additional application or software required, and you
> > don't really have to use the Reader to access them. However, the Reader
> > downloads a Gutenberg text and replaces simple quotes with curly
> quotation
> > marks, double dashes with m-dashes, gets rid of the end-of-line
> characters
> > within paragraphs, and presents the text in a book-like layout, using the
> > fontface of your choice. You can navigate easily through the book with
> > mouseclicks or using the arrowkeys, set a bookmark, and make notes on any
> > passage. The result is a completely different reading experience from
> what
> > you are probably used to on a computer screen."
> >
> > The Reader is also available in a standalone application at
> >
> > http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig/Gutenberg.html
> >
> > Many thanks to all on this list who have helped me (mostly unknowingly)
> over
> > the years I have been (mostly) lurking in the background. I have picked
> up
> > countless tips on the vicissitudes of Rev without which I'd have been
> lost.
> > Some of us benefit quietly from all the amazing information shared here,
> and
> > we may not always speak up about it.
> >
> > a grateful amateur,
> >
> > Peter M. Brigham
> > pmbrig at gmail.com
> >
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