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Sensei's Library On Tour
Keywords: Software
Sensei's Library on Tour (SLoT) is a little Java tool, that converts a wiki dump into a set of HTML pages that can be easily converted for reading on a handheld computer or e-book reader. This page deals with this tool and is maintained by Hans Wiezorke. Feel free to add comment wherever you see fit. HistoryOne way to get SL onto a handheld, is to convert the SLSnapshot into a format for one of the many document readers out there. The problem with this approach is, that all the diagrams have to be scaled down, in order to fit onto a small screen. My first attempt to crunch the SLSnapshot with ISiloX resulted in a 40MB document, that only had badly scaled black and white diagrams. The obvious solution for this is to rebuild the diagrams from their original ascii source and assemble them by putting together several small icons. The original idea for this approach came from AshleyF, who started PocketSL. Since many handheld computers do not come with a web browser, that can interpret JavaScript, I saw the need for a plain HTML version and thus wrote SLoT. SLoT generates quite a lot of html (currently 62MB), but this html can be compressed very efficiently by web clipping applications. I use ISilo/ISiloX for compressing and viewing and the resulting document is 16MB. By filtering, you can cut this down to a few kB. Small subsets can even be viewed on older 2MB Palms. Here's what you need:
You do not need the SLSnaphot for this. The readme file in the SLoT package contains all instructions needed. SLoT features:
Future plans:
This is how the SLoT output can be used with ISilo/ISiloX. ISilo is a document browser for Palm and Pocket PC.
These Parameters worked for me:
Discussion
MarkD: Hans: I have an old 8 MB Palm Vx. Is it possible to use a subset of the SL snapshot with real diagrams? I won't need all the personal homepages and discussions on my Palm, just the strategy and Shapes pages for example. HansWiezorke Hi Mark, actually I had the same idea. :-) My program supports a page list (a simple textfile) that can be used to specify, which pages you want. So a small subset to work on a Vx with diagrams is no problem. An automatic filter is not so easy, since not all pages have their category set correctly. MarkD That's true...and this is the reason why I keep setting and changing the categories for new pages all the time :)
MarkD: Nice work Hans, just tried it on my new Zire 71. Works great and looks very nice :) HansWiezorke: Thanks. The \ is a bug, that works fine on Windows :). Easy fix: replace "html\\" with "html/" in Slot.java (line 63) and in myWiki/WikiWriter.java (line 47). then recompile Slot.java by typing: javac Slot.java This will be fixed in the next version. No Idea, how often the dump is updated, but I guess, it will be the same interval as the SLSnapshot.
MarkD: Hmm time to call for a new snapshot, once every 2 months is not really enough. HansWiezorke: Well, you can always mail Arno with a request for a new snapshot. Maybe discuss this on the SLSnapshot page. This is a copy of the living page "Sensei's Library On Tour" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |