David, Mats, thanks for the idea and I will pass them on.
2009/6/12 Mats Lundälv
<mats.lundalv@...>
Being heavily involved in the CCF work
I of course agree with David's point. The problem may be timing. We are
close to finalising a first full release of the CCF - but it may be until
a bit into the autumn until we have a first more comprehensive vocabulary
with Blissymbols (as first target - support for other freely available
symbol libraries to follow later on).
Straight-street should be out then as well. What is the status now with bliss? I was just discussing them with someone and realised last I heard they were still in limbo.
Are there any public news items on CCF that explain what is happening
But we should be able to provide
the basic CCF API to support before that. When is this PowerReader work
envisaged to happen?
Perhaps over the summer holidays (US)
Other thoughts: It's rather important
that text content from different sorces can be conveniently read via PowerReader
- and not only plain text files as currently. It may, on the other hand
be a quite heavy task to support several different major formats? One idea
worth investigating could be PowerReader as an OpenOffice extension. The
advantage being to have OO.o taking care of document and document format
handling, as well as wider and cross-platform deployment, and just concentrating
on the unique additional presentation features of PowerReader. Could the
current Java app be reasonably smoothly integrated in OO.o (via some XUL
wrapper etc.) or would this require some more complete re-write?
An interesting idea. I do not know if OOo has an easy extension/plugin architecture, but heard the main code was a large complex C beast that has a steep learning curve
Steve
