Hello, Kay;

28 Dec 04 16:56, Kay Shapero wrote to Robert Bull:

 RB>> still pretty expensive if you're not convinced.  A copy of VANITY
 RB>> FAIR in the local library weighs in at nearly 900 pages, which
 RB>> seems an awesome amount of text to read on a small screen.  Or
 RB>> small book-print, come to that.

 KS> That it is.  And how much text is it to read off of the screen?  :)

OK, OK, wiseacre, it's the same amount of text!    What I really 
meant is that I'd assumed that your Palm screen isn't a whole page of text 
and you'd be getting sore fingers with all the paging down, and tired eyes 
from squinty text.

 KS> settings, and if I wanted I could make it even bigger than in the
 KS> hardback trivially.  I can read in line without lugging it around, I
 KS> can read in bed without a nightlight (backlit screen...), I don't have

So what you're saying is, that the Palm has made reading actually easier in 
the sense of greater versatility and portability?

 KS> don't, I use "Homesite 5", which is basically an extended
text editor
 KS> which also contains a html manual, shortcuts for various features
 KS> (like links, fonts, line breaks et all), and a way to display what the
 KS> results will look like using whatever browser you link it to.  It does
 KS> reduce the work, without writing code for you (you do NOT want to know
 KS> what it looked like the time I used Word to mock up a page to see what
 KS> I wanted to do with it.  By the time I edited the result in a text
 KS> editor to remove the excess garbage, the file shrank to half its
 KS> original size.)

I've got a pretty good idea.  At work people send me HTML reports generated 
by the Unix mainframe.  Occasionally some smart alec ingests it into Word, 
which grunges it beyond the ability of Bruce Guthrie's HTMLStrip to convert 
into plain text, which is what I need for importing into another system.  
Last time I looked, even HTMLtidy hadn't got as far as cleaning up HTML 
munged by Word but I found JAFsoft's cheap shareware Detagger (I actually 
use the command line version, H2Acons) did a good job on removing Word 
fluff.  I'm not sure it's designed to do that, but it did it, and sometimes 
does a better job than HTMLStrip's default settings on other files.

 KS> Nope, it means that Arthur is remembered as a wicked tyrant.  Among
 KS> other things either he attempted to forstall Mordred by having a

Hmmm, that's a new twist, though I've seen him rendered a homosexual 
(presumably read from his failure with Guinevere).

     Regards,

              Robert.

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