From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2007-08-10T21:05:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby app on a CD

Le 10 ao�t � 13:33, Robert Klemme a �crit :

> 2007/8/7, Hans Fugal <fugalh@zianet.com>:
>> I have a client who wants to make an interactive CD to accompany a book.
>>   By interactive I mean search, hyperlink, etc. content from the book,
>> not like homestarrunner.com or pbskids.org or something.
> 
> If you just need hyperlinking and searching, PDF would be sufficient.
> You can even link between several documents and web URLs.  Plus you
> get pretty good layouting options.  Plus you can generate it with
> PDFWriter in Ruby.

Depends on what you mean with searching.  

For instance, I have the PickAxe on PDF, but I'd like to have a better
search in the APIs than that - the chm version that comes with the
one-click ruby installer is nice for that.

(No need to direct me to websites & softs out there, this is not the
point...)

Fred
-- 
I hate to point this out to you, but software authors write betcherous
stuff all the time. Hells, *I've* written stuff that had so many
tentacles it's currently starring in Hentai (and do I see any of the
royalties ?).                                          (Jim, in the SDM)