Linux Doc Project PDA Info System

for those of you talking about Book document Readers This has
just been announced have a look at http://plkr.org/

Here is the text of the announcement ...

Linux Documentation Project Weekly News: 2002-02-05
Feb 7, 2002, 16 :12 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (1259 reads)
(Other stories by David Merrill)

LDP Weekly News
2002-02-05

   by David Merrill

Documents Available in Plucker Format

The Linux Documentation Project has just added support for
another documentation format: the "Plucker" format. Plucker is a
GPL-licensed offline HTML viewer for users of Palm-based PDAs
(such as the Palm and Handspring Visor series).

   Plucker supports compression, hypertext links, clickable images,
   italics, bold, varying-sized fonts, multiple databases, and
   configurable display parameters and stylus options. Plucker also
   includes programs to compress HTML documents into the
Plucker format, essentially a compressed form of HTML. This kind
of compression is necessary on PDAs, which have limited
amounts of memory. More information, and the Plucker software, is
available at
   http://plkr.org.

Users of these PDAs can now download various LDP documents
from the web, push their base's "synchronize" button, and
suddenly have those
   
LDP documents available on their PDAs wherever they are. This
saves users from having to install and use Plucker's compression
programs (including figuring out what options work best for the
LDP). Opening a document on the PDA shows that document's
summary and a hypertext
   table of contents; users can use the stylus to go immediately to
the
   section they need, or read the whole document if they wish.
Once the
   documents are in one PDA, users can also exchange them with
other PDAs
   by "beaming" them (using infrared connections).

   Supporting plucker will hopefully encourage the use of
GNU/Linux and
   free software/open source software (FS/OSS), since by making it
easier
   to put LDP documents in PDAs, the documents should become
more
   widespread. Hopefully making "plucker" format available will also
   discourage the use of proprietary formats for FS/OSS related
   documentation, which has already happened in a few cases.
  
   Thanks go to David A. Wheeler dwheeler@dwheeler.com for
helping us out
   with testing, and to our HOWTO Coordinator, Greg Ferguson, for
doing
   the implementation.
Received on Fri Feb 8 05:30:55 2002