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From: Wayne D. <wa...@bl...> - 2003-07-03 19:10:52
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On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:28:27AM -0500, Steve Harrington wrote: > When I convert a web site such as the Christian Science Monitor, when > I import it into my ebook, some of the formatting is such that the > text for paragraphs starts at the far right edge of the screen (so > that there might be but one or two words on a line). This is probably caused by all the table elements on the page. You should try converting their plain-text site instead: http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?textEdition That should look a lot better. ..wayne.. |
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From: Steve H. <ste...@sw...> - 2003-07-03 06:28:38
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I downloaded the fix, and it works like a champ - thanks. Now, I have a question. When I convert a web site such as the Christian Science Monitor, when I import it into my ebook, some of the formatting is such that the text for paragraphs starts at the far right edge of the screen (so that there might be but one or two words on a line). Is this something I can fix with one of the rbmake command line switches? I tried the -Ts (simple formatting), but that didn't seem to work. I'm not sure what other switches might have an effect on it. Or is that just something I need to live with? Thanks for the bug fix and thanks for writing rbmake. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Wayne Davison [mailto:rb...@bl...] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 12:01 PM To: Steve Harrington Cc: rbm...@li... Subject: Re: [Rbmake-users] problems converting web site On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:40:33AM -0500, Steve Harrington wrote: > rbmake -f1 -jio csm-depth1 http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com > [... invalid .rb file created ...] OK, I fixed the root cause of the bug: it was dropping a page that it couldn't fetch which was still marked as "maybe HTML", and that combination wasn't decrementing the "to do" count for the joined-page group. You can snag the latest source either directly from CVS, or via this tar file: http://rbmake.sourceforge.net/rbmake-cvs.tar.gz ..wayne.. |
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From: Wayne D. <rb...@bl...> - 2003-07-01 17:01:14
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:40:33AM -0500, Steve Harrington wrote: > rbmake -f1 -jio csm-depth1 http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com > [... invalid .rb file created ...] OK, I fixed the root cause of the bug: it was dropping a page that it couldn't fetch which was still marked as "maybe HTML", and that combination wasn't decrementing the "to do" count for the joined-page group. You can snag the latest source either directly from CVS, or via this tar file: http://rbmake.sourceforge.net/rbmake-cvs.tar.gz ..wayne.. |
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From: Wayne D. <rb...@bl...> - 2003-06-30 16:49:20
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:40:33AM -0500, Steve Harrington wrote: > rbmake -f1 -jio csm-depth1 http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com There's a bug in rbmake that causes it to sometimes not output the joined HTML page after fetching everything. I think it happens when there are failures in the fetched pages -- I should hopefully have time to investigate this soon. In the meantime, you can work around the problem by excluding pages from being fetched. I recommend creating an option file and editing it. Start by running the above command with the -d option, and redirect the output to a file: rbmake -d -f1 -jio csm-depth1 http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com >csm.opt Then, edit it and add these lines: Exclude-URLs-Matching: */event.ng* Exclude-URLs-Matching: */message.asp* Exclude-URLs-Matching: */spidertest* At this point you can run this command to grab the CSM content: rbmake -l csm.opt Hopefully that will work for you. ..wayne.. |
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From: Steve H. <ste...@sw...> - 2003-06-30 07:40:37
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Hi, First off, I want to say that rbmake is a very exciting find for me. I've recently purchased an RCA eBook 1100 from Ebay and was thrilled to find rbmake. Initially, I downloaded the 1.0 binaries. I was experiencing problems with rbmake crashing when I used 1.0. I thought I would try to build 1.1 (can't seem to find 1.1 binaries to download), to see if it solved the problems. After several iterations, I was able to get rbmake to build with image support. Now, 1.1 doesn't seem to crash for the most part. However, it is producing some rb files that my ebook doesn't like (and cannot read). I am trying to convert the Christian Science Monitor web site using this command: rbmake -f1 -jio csm-depth1 http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com <http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/> It cranks away, seeming to succeed and produces a file csm-depth1.rb. When I import this file into my ebook, it cannot read it. If I change the command to not follow links (removing the -f1) then it works, but there isn't much content because it's just the front page of the site. I am running this on Windows XP - building under cygwin. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve |
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From: Seabrook, R. <rhs...@aa...> - 2003-01-14 16:56:19
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-----Original Message----- From: Alvaro Jimenez To: rbm...@li... Sent: 1/14/03 11:17 AM Subject: Re: [Rbmake-users] Newbie Hello, I know the reb 1100, but i think that it works similar: When the book file is generated you can upload it using the import utility from the program included with the ebook Alvaro J. ------------------------- Thanks, but according to the company (Gemstar) "... the only books that are truly portable and readable on your Gemstar brand device are authorized Gemstar eBook editions. At this time the only authorized retailers of eBooks for the Gemstar devices are Gemstar's online bookstore and Powell's Books online." The ops manual has no occurrences of the word 'import' in the eBook User's Guide Version 3.1 The device was an 1100 but I sent it in for upgrade to 1150 a month ago. Dick S. |
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From: Alvaro J. <aji...@ii...> - 2003-01-14 16:28:17
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From: Alvaro J. <aji...@ii...> - 2003-01-14 16:15:20
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Hello, I know the reb 1100, but i think that it works similar: When the book file is generated you can upload it using the import utility from the program included with the ebook Alvaro J. >Message: 1 >From: "Seabrook, Richard" <rhs...@aa...> >To: "'rbm...@li...'" > <rbm...@li...> >Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:11:15 -0500 >Subject: [Rbmake-users] Newbie > >Hello list, I've just subscribed and I hope this >project is still active! >I'm in generating course materials in ebook format, I've >been teaching at Anne Arundel Community College for >over 20 years and would like to support students with >ebook 1150 devices. I'm totally ignorant about the >format spec and also how I'd get the file into the ebook >after generating it properly. >I'd be very happy if anyone would point me a the direction to >find this kind of information. >Dick S. > > > >--__--__-- > >_______________________________________________ >Rbmake-users mailing list >Rbm...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rbmake-users > > >End of Rbmake-users Digest |
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From: Seabrook, R. <rhs...@aa...> - 2003-01-12 20:08:05
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Hello list, I've just subscribed and I hope this project is still active! I'm in generating course materials in ebook format, I've been teaching at Anne Arundel Community College for over 20 years and would like to support students with ebook 1150 devices. I'm totally ignorant about the format spec and also how I'd get the file into the ebook after generating it properly. I'd be very happy if anyone would point me a the direction to find this kind of information. Dick S. |
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From: Wayne D. <wa...@us...> - 2002-02-17 21:23:14
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On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
> Has anybody come up with a Substitution-Rule-File for Project Gutenberg
> books? Their standard format places a carriage return an line feed after
> every line which makes for a very ugly rb file.
I haven't fiddled with Gutenberg texts much yet, but you should try
using the -Ts option for simple-text formatting. Rbmake's default is
-Tp (preformatted), which will look ugly for hard-CR text files. This
"simple" (-Ts) mode expects paragraphs to have an empty line between
them, so it should work fairly well with these books.
Another alternative is to transform the book into an HTML file. There
are some filter tools available that turn Gutenberg texts into HTML,
such as this one:
http://www.sandroid.org/GutenMark/
There is also at least one site that transforms the texts into XHTML/XML
and makes the results available for download. Here's the one I know
about:
http://gutenberg.hwg.org/
..wayne..
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From: Brian Kimsey-H. <ki...@mp...> - 2002-02-15 15:02:49
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Has anybody come up with a Substitution-Rule-File for Project Gutenberg books? Their standard format places a carriage return an line feed after every line which makes for a very ugly rb file. Thanks, Brian |
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From: Brian Kimsey-H. <ki...@mp...> - 2002-02-14 02:53:51
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Okay, I had a chance to work with it. I was not able to get an rb file off of the web site. I even copied your command line to a bat file and it would create a book but not the images. I was able to make it work by coping the web site page for Matthew 1 and renamed the subordinate image directory from Matthew 1_files to Mattew1_files, update the html and everything worked fine. I guess the space must have caused the problem. It all may be a moot point though, the images are too large for the rocket book to show them completely. I get the scroll arrows which just makes it too cumbersome to read. I tried reducing the image size to a 315 pixel width and they just became too small to read. I guess what I need is text that is imaged by words instead of phrase. In any case, I like the control of rbmake a lot better than the RocketLibrarian. Good Job! Brian -----Original Message----- From: Wayne Davison [SMTP:wa...@us...] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 1:29 PM To: Brian Kimsey-Hickman Cc: 'rbm...@li...' Subject: RE: [Rbmake-users] My Local Images are not transferring On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: > rbmake -pfyi -oMatthew "C:\My Documents\ebooks\greek bible\Matthew.htm" The -f option eats an argument, so you've given -f the "yi" argument (which it interprets as "yes"). You should instead say "-pify". One thing you can do to ask rbmake how it interpreted its options is to output an options file. Just put a -D at the start of the command-line and it will output an options file to stdout. If you like the options file format, you can save it off (using redirection) and then load the file instead of typing command-line options (e.g. rbmake -l my.opt). > here I get this message when I select the [Image] link on my Rocket > eBook after I load the page: The images are imagemaps, which rbmake doesn't know how to process (handling them would require an artificial intelligence "looking" at the image and figuring out where all the interesting spots to click are -- in this case figuring out that the image is made up of words and that it is possible to click on each word separately). I first tried this command to create an entire NT: rbmake -pif1 -oGreekNT -m'http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/cgi-bin/*' http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/gnt/chapters.html Here we've told rbmake to start on the chapters page, to descend only 1 link down from this page, and to allow references to the cgi-bin dir that is not a part of the tree where we started. This gives me a book that has 261 pages and 499 images, which would have been more if we hadn't run into the default table-of-contents size-limit (there were 7458 images excluded). So, trying to get the whole NT in one book will be too big for the rocket. Let's try getting just Matthew: rbmake -pif1 -N1024 -oMatthew -m'http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/cgi-bin/gnt?id=01*' http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/gnt/chapters.html Here we upped the maximum number of files we can include using the -N option and limited the links followed to just the Matthew pages (by extending the URL in the -m option). This appears to have worked great (but I didn't try to get the rocket to display it -- I looked at the 2MB book manually). If you go this route, you'll probably want to edit the start page down to just mention the book(s) that you're including. I hope this helps. ..wayne.. |
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From: Brian Kimsey-H. <ki...@mp...> - 2002-02-13 03:38:32
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Yes, that helps a lot. It will take me a day or two to work with that to see how it all works. Thanks, for the help. Brian |
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From: Wayne D. <wa...@us...> - 2002-02-11 18:28:45
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: > rbmake -pfyi -oMatthew "C:\My Documents\ebooks\greek bible\Matthew.htm" The -f option eats an argument, so you've given -f the "yi" argument (which it interprets as "yes"). You should instead say "-pify". One thing you can do to ask rbmake how it interpreted its options is to output an options file. Just put a -D at the start of the command-line and it will output an options file to stdout. If you like the options file format, you can save it off (using redirection) and then load the file instead of typing command-line options (e.g. rbmake -l my.opt). > here I get this message when I select the [Image] link on my Rocket > eBook after I load the page: The images are imagemaps, which rbmake doesn't know how to process (handling them would require an artificial intelligence "looking" at the image and figuring out where all the interesting spots to click are -- in this case figuring out that the image is made up of words and that it is possible to click on each word separately). I first tried this command to create an entire NT: rbmake -pif1 -oGreekNT -m'http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/cgi-bin/*' http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/gnt/chapters.html Here we've told rbmake to start on the chapters page, to descend only 1 link down from this page, and to allow references to the cgi-bin dir that is not a part of the tree where we started. This gives me a book that has 261 pages and 499 images, which would have been more if we hadn't run into the default table-of-contents size-limit (there were 7458 images excluded). So, trying to get the whole NT in one book will be too big for the rocket. Let's try getting just Matthew: rbmake -pif1 -N1024 -oMatthew -m'http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/cgi-bin/gnt?id=01*' http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/gnt/chapters.html Here we upped the maximum number of files we can include using the -N option and limited the links followed to just the Matthew pages (by extending the URL in the -m option). This appears to have worked great (but I didn't try to get the rocket to display it -- I looked at the 2MB book manually). If you go this route, you'll probably want to edit the start page down to just mention the book(s) that you're including. I hope this helps. ..wayne.. |
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From: Brian Kimsey-H. <ki...@mp...> - 2002-02-11 14:52:17
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Wayne, Thanks, for the help to following are to commands I am using For the local web page I constructed I used rbmake -pfyi -oMatthew "C:\My Documents\ebooks\greek bible\Matthew.htm" the images are located in a C:\My Documents\ebooks\greek bible\Matthew.htm\Matthew 1_files I have tried referencing the images by the C: path and relative path (/Mathew1_files/image.gif), neither work. however both work fine in IE 5.5 For the URL I used the command rbmake -pfyi -oMatthewH http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/cgi-bin/gnt?id=0101 here I get this message when I select the [Image] link on my Rocket eBook after I load the page: Usage error! (bad coordinates) Sorry, your browser has supplied incorrect values to the GNT program. If you are using Netscape on a Macintosh, this is a Known Bug in your browser: please try a different computer If you cam here via a search engine, blame the search engine, and try the link below The Greek New Testament home page is here. In any case I hope that gives you a better picture of what I have tried. Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Brian -----Original Message----- From: Wayne Davison [SMTP:wa...@us...] Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 2:51 PM To: ki...@mp... Cc: rbm...@li... Subject: Re: [Rbmake-users] My Local Images are not transferring On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 ki...@mp... wrote: > But, when I go to open it non of the images appear. You don't mention what command you're typing. If you want images to be included in a book, you need to specify the -i option. Also, when you were trying to slurp the pages from the web, you need to ensure that you have link-following turned on (such as -fy or -f8), and you need to ensure that the links are in an "included" part of the site. For instance, starting the command at http://www.foo.com/bar/index.html will follow any links below www.foo.com/bar/, but will not follow links to www.foo.com/zap/. You can enable link following to anywhere you like by using the -m (or -M) option. For instance, if you start at the same "bar" index page above and give the option "-m http://www.foo.com/baz/" it will include pages from either spot (or you could omit the "baz/" to include pages from anywhere on the site). ..wayne.. _______________________________________________ Rbmake-users mailing list Rbm...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rbmake-users |
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From: Wayne D. <wa...@us...> - 2002-02-10 19:50:46
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On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 ki...@mp... wrote: > But, when I go to open it non of the images appear. You don't mention what command you're typing. If you want images to be included in a book, you need to specify the -i option. Also, when you were trying to slurp the pages from the web, you need to ensure that you have link-following turned on (such as -fy or -f8), and you need to ensure that the links are in an "included" part of the site. For instance, starting the command at http://www.foo.com/bar/index.html will follow any links below www.foo.com/bar/, but will not follow links to www.foo.com/zap/. You can enable link following to anywhere you like by using the -m (or -M) option. For instance, if you start at the same "bar" index page above and give the option "-m http://www.foo.com/baz/" it will include pages from either spot (or you could omit the "baz/" to include pages from anywhere on the site). ..wayne.. |
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From: Brian Kimsey-H. <ki...@mp...> - 2002-02-09 04:16:19
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I am trying to create a RB book from a web site that is exclusively images of Greek text. Rbmake cannot follow the links when I point to the URL and when I download the page the images just don't load. I am using a simple <IMG src="directory/010101.gif" border=0> The file generates without any errors. But, when I go to open it non of the images appear. Does anybody have any idea what is going on? Thanks, Brian |
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From: <ki...@mp...> - 2002-02-08 19:02:18
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I am trying to create a RB book from a web site that is exclusively images of Greek text. Rbmake cannot follow the links when I point to the URL and when I download the page the images just don't load. I am using a simple <IMG src="directory/010101.gif" border=0> The file generates without any errors. But, when I go to open it non of the images appear. Does anybody have any idea what is going on? Thanks, Brian |
