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- Making Book, a Newton Book Maker example source. by Bob Ebert
- Copyright (c) 1993-1994 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved.
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- This sample illustrates how to make a book using the Newton Book Maker.
- It's fairly straightforward and, even, self documenting. (The chosen book
- is the Newton Book Maker user's manual.)
-
- The book source was originally written in Microsoft Word, because I like the
- styles support they have. Unfortunately, a MS Word converter for the Claris
- XTND system may not be available to everyone, so a MacWrite II version of
- the book source has been included. The MacWrite version was created by
- opening the MS Word version in MacWrite II, then saving it. I never
- actually tested building a book from the MacWrite source... but it should
- work just fine.
-
- Some caveats on building books with MS Word:
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- Turn off the "Quick Save" option in Word. Having this option on seems to
- allow Word to put little pieces of garbage in between paragraphs which
- confuse the book maker. If you start seeing odd style changes in your
- resulting books, it's probably because of this.
-
- If you do start getting odd style changes, one thing that worked for me
- was to save the source document as RTF text, then re-import it into Word
- as a new document and re-save it.
-
- Also, beware that, when changing styles in Word, the final (invisible)
- paragraph mark can sometimes be in a different font or point size from
- the rest of the paragraph. This also confuses the Newton Book Maker.
-
- In general, best results are achieved when you start with unstyled text,
- then add font, size, and style information only where needed.
-
- Some Newton Book Maker caveats:
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- Only the fonts New York and Geneva are supported. Any other font you use
- in your source book will show up in the Newton as the System Font (Which
- is Espy Sans) It's probably a good idea to avoid using this font (since
- it doesn't print well), so it's worth the effort to weed out any font
- besides New York and Geneva from your source book.
-
- Comment dot commands (.#) appear to be limited to 256 characters. Text
- beyond the 256th character is treated as a .story. You can put multiple
- .# comments on multiple lines to work around this.
-
- Watch out for backslashes, dot commands you want in content, etc. Keep
- in mind that the output from the Newton Book Maker is run thorugh NTK,
- which also gets a stab at interpreting escape characters etc.
-
- Don't try to put escaped unicode characters (i.e. /u2022/u) in your book
- source. It may appear to work, but style runs will get messed up as the
- Book Maker treats the above as 8 characters, even though only 1 is
- produced. [A later version of Book Maker may fix this.]
-
- To build the book, drop the source document on the Newton Book Maker icon,
- then click the Do It button. Save the result. Add the .f file to a NTK
- project. (No layout needs to be present.) Set the Package Name in the NTK
- Project Settings window. Build the project. Download it.
-
- NTK will close and re-open the .f file each time it builds, so once the file
- has been added to an NTK project there is no need to re-add it. Just
- reproduce the .f output with the Newton Book Maker, save the new result over
- the old file (replacing it), and rebuild the project.
-
- Finally, the Newton Book Reader (Copperfield) caches some information about
- each book it loads. (The .isbn, .title, and .keywords among other things.)
- If you change any of these you will need to reset the Newton to get the
- changes to take effect.
-