You don't specify the texts you are interested in. If they are in the public
domain, they will probably be on Project Gutenberg's web site. I don't have
the URL in front of me but a search on Gutenberg will bring it right up. You
can then download the text and have all the fun of building your own Newton
Books. I have done several and can tell you that while it isn't just drag
and drop, it isn't that hard either. Most difficult is editing out widows
and orphans (first and last lines of a paragraph left alone on a page) and
getting rid of the repeated legal notices at the beginning. If it is a large
text you do need to add the chapter headers to the table of contents so the
overview button will work on the compiled book.
Jim Johnston
Teacher
Mac Smacker
Newton User
> From: Gary Moody <gmoody@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 20:32:54 -0700 (PDT)
> To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
> Subject: Re: NTLK Books on Screen
>
> Okay...In the US version of Word 95 and 97for Windoze, there is no option
> "Recover Text" or anything like this. The is *only* options for opening are
> either Word documents of various flavors or other word processing/text
> editor formats, including unicode. However, using *any* of these formats to
> try to open a .PKG file yeilds garbage, barely readable, with control
> characters in between each character. On *my* version(s) of WinWord, it
> does not work.
>
> Jim has an interesting and valid point about the use of Newtscape, but this
> only works with relatively small texts. On larger texts, the Newton runs
> out of heap. The large texts are the ones I'm specifically interested in.
> <sigh>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Lui Frimmel <luifri@atnet.at>
> Reply-To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
> To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
> Subject: Re: NTLK Books on Screen
> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 03:51:13 +0200
>
> At 12:39 06.06.00 -0700, you wrote:
>> Well, this does NOT work with Word 97 on Windoze...WOW...what a mess!
>>
> No mess, it works on Word 97 Win also. Choose Open Dialog, there is file
> name and file type. Under file type choose
> something like "recover text" (I am using a German Word 97, there it is
> "Text wiederherstellen" ;-)
>
> Lui
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