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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:21:31 +0000
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From: Nick Lowe <n.lowe@rhul.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: pda's and texts
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dm asked:

>  Curiosity question for the handful of y'all using palm pilots
>  vel simm out there. What is the preferred program for reading
>  text files? I'd like to put together a classical library for
>  the palm but am unsure of what most people read their 'ebooks'
>  with ...

The DOC format is still the standard, and should be ok with most readers
(including free ones); though proprietary formats are now proliferating, I
don't think any is likely to replace it soon. For a reader/editor, I use
QED (from www.qland.de; reader version free), with the excellent Britannike
font for Greek; the new version (2.8.1) comes with a teeny-tiny font for
normal-resolution screens that finally makes Latin verse fit on the
standard 160 x 160 screen. Others swear by AportisDoc or iSilo (which also
has its own file format claiming better compression, and handles HTML; not
free, though). Or you could just use plain-text files; there are free DOC
converters.

This is a really great idea, by the way!

Nick Lowe.


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