[gentoo-user] [OT] annotate html pages

[gentoo-user] [OT] annotate html pages

[Harry Putnam]

Sorry for the OT but as many here know this is the place to get quick
pointers to other related or semi-related material since there are
many experts and near experts here.

Ok, enough smoke blown... now:

I have some text books on CD that are in html.  I'd like to annotate
as I read, much like writing in the margins of real books.

This is such an obvious good idea I'm pretty sure its been done and
there are tools available.

I can muddle thru this by hand with targets and anchors and the like
and do have some bare minimum html skills.  But the time it would take
me would pretty much nullify the utility of it.

Plus, I'm thinking someone has put together a tool that can hold an
html frame of a book page and a couple inches at the bottom of the
browser screen where one can enter text much like any text editor
except this text editor has a switch or button that creates a link at
the relevent paragraph or page being read.

All the while the book appears as rendered html.  And doesn't have to
be switched to source and back or something distracting.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] annotate html pages

[Glenn Enright]

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 15:17, Harry Putnam wrote:
> All the while the book appears as rendered html.  And doesn't have to
> be switched to source and back or something distracting.

while not having investigated it too much, openoffice and other similar apps 
all process web pages... perhaps they can do the work for you?
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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] annotate html pages

[Harry Putnam]

Glenn Enright <elinar@ihug.co.nz> writes:

> while not having investigated it too much, openoffice and other similar apps 
> all process web pages... perhaps they can do the work for you?

Looks like a product called Amaya maybe more directly designed for
this.
For anyone interested:  http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] annotate html pages

[Glenn Enright]

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 02:54, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Glenn Enright <elinar@ihug.co.nz> writes:
> > while not having investigated it too much, openoffice and other similar
> > apps all process web pages... perhaps they can do the work for you?
>
> Looks like a product called Amaya maybe more directly designed for
> this.
> For anyone interested:  http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

very nice... might have a play with that myself :)
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