Read ETexts Activity

[Edward Cherlin]

Will it include Text-to-Speech, for the purposes we have discussed on
this list? If so, could we get some sort of cursor or coloring effect
to show the illiterate or semi-literate where they are in the text?

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:22 PM, James Simmons
<jim.simmons at walgreens.com> wrote:
> 1. Project name             : Read ETexts Activity
>  2. Existing website, if any : None
>  3. One-line description     : A simple Python Activity for reading Gutenberg etexts
>
>  4. Longer description       : This will be a fairly trivial activity that allows
>                             : paging through Gutenberg etexts.  It will support
>                             : reading text files (loaded from a USB device) or
>                             : Zip files containing a single text file (which is
>                             : the easiest format to download to the Journal using
>                             : the Browse activity).  It will have a user interface
>                             : quite similar to the Read activity, and will support
>                             : most of the functions of that activity except it
>                             : will support plain text files instead of PDFs.
>
>  5. URLs of similar projects : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read
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>       Username   Full name             SSH2 key URL                    E-mail
>       --------   ---------             ------------                    ------
>    #1 jdsimmons  James Simmons         ?                               ja.simmons at sbcglobal.net
>    #2
>    #3
>       ...
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>  11. Translation
>    [X] Set up the laptop.org Pootle server to allow translation commits to be made
>    [ ] Translation arrangements have already been made at _______________
>
>  12. Notes/comments:  Since the toolbar will be adapted from the Read toolbar I should
>    be able to use the same translations.  Also, since the activity will be simple
>    and entirely in Python it might be good sample code for new Activity developers
>    to look at.  The memory requirements of the Activity will be very low, because
>    I'm building a list of pointers to where each page begins rather than storing
>    the document in memory.
>
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