serialization of an off-line text resource

To see the effect of my Curl serialization effort look at the speed of the small daily pages such as http://www.aule-browser.com/kanji/poets/basho-mee-indexed.html

The new daily page generated fast and it loads very fast. I have already cycled twice through the BIN serialization files as I find minor transcription errors in the principal text resource - but that text resource now does not need to reside on the applet web server !

Here is a snapshot for 見

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Kindle PC Reader

I am running the Kindle PC Reader 1.8.3 and it is dreadful.  Hopeless footnote formatting.

My post on this at Global Curl is somewhat polemical and rhetorical, but really - given the lack of features in the iBook 2 Author tool, both Apple and Amazon are inviting competition.

Kobo's new owners?  I'm thinking of the disregard for Toyota back when they were a minor vendor in North America - only now we are talking China, Indonesia, India and many other cultural regions where Amazon, Apple and Google just don't cut it.  And I don't mean "pages".

For an interesting language with a natural bent for such things as flowing footnotes, see co-expressions in Icon, Unicon, Converge or Object Icon (or constraint-handling rule libraries elsewhere post-PROLOGIA IV and CLP.)

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iBook Author Tool

Here are recent comments from the Apple page on the iBook Author tool:

Customer Reviews
No mathematical notation support
     by D. Ernst
This would be great if there was (1) reasonable support for mathematical notation and (2) a way to import LaTeX documents (the standard for typesetting mathematics). Until that happens, mathematically heavy texts are a no go.

And

No way to note "references"
     by Conrad Fischer
There is no way to note "references" or "endnotes". How do you write a textbook without having references?

But I did not validate either.

I link to this post over at the global Curl community.

Hegels Phänomenologie

Ich habe ein komplettes Hegel Die Phänomenologie des Geistes in deutscher Sprache unter
http://phil.aule-browser.com/phaenomenologie-des-geistes.html hinzugefügt.

Es ist in die Curl Web-Content-Markup Sprache mit Text-Formatten für Philosophische Texte und E-Bücher definiert. Das Betrachten dieser Web-Seite benötigt der Curl RTE-Browser-Plugin von www.curl.com.

Die Seite hat ein BaumStil Inhaltsverzeichnis auf der linken Seite der WebPage und eine Reihe von Links in den Inhalt an der Spitze der Text; Version ohne kursiv wird ein paar Minuten länger dauern.

I have added a complete Hegel Die Phänomenologie des Geistes in German at
http://phil.aule-browser.com/phaenomenologie-des-geistes.html

The book is in Curl web content markup using text-formats defined for philosophy texts and e-books.

The page requires Curl RTE browser plugin from www.curl.com

The TocDocument has a tree table of contents on the left and a set of links in the Inhalt chapter at the top of the text. 

A version with no italics will take a few minutes more (just redefine the text-format in the Curl file without touching the text as marked-up in the Scurl file.  One source - many presentations.)

Curl TIP: the top index in the text display window has {link } expressions to {destination } expressions in the text.  If they are to work, those links MUST be in the .curl Applet file and not in the .scurl file containing the markup of the large text.

Curl for creative e-books

With Facebook absorbing Push Pop Press and more interest in Curl from the server-side, should we not be taking Curl seriously as a format for creative e-books?

To get an idea, look at what TiddlySpot.com and TiddlySpace.com have been able to do for TiddlyWiki using Python and PHP.

Curl macros are natural for templates for page layout - and there is all the experience gained from the recent addition of stylesheets to Curl pages - and a new style-designer is coming.

What is missing is e-books that are sync'd to WBT as "smart textbooks" to complement web-based training (and not the fat binder of photocopies, pul-lease!