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NaggieHTML tool: eLyXer 0.4.1

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

eLyXer thumb HTML tool: eLyXer 0.4.1

eLyXer 0.4.1 is a LyX to HTML converter, with a focus on flexibility and elegant output. LyX is a wonderful text editor which produces beautiful PDF files. Internally it exports documents to LaTeX, and from there to PDF. It can convert documents generated with LyX versions from 1.5.5 to 1.6.2 into valid HTML pages.

The output requires XHTML, CSS2 and Unicode; therefore a CSS2-compatible browser is required.

Minimum browser versions for some popular programs are: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 3, Safari 3 and Chrome 1. It requires Python 2.3.4 or higher

It consists of –

  • Select the translation based on document language.
  • Added em-dash — such as in this sentence, ■, \textup.
  • Added option –converter inkscape to use Inkscape as SVG converter.
  • Solved bug when numbering unordered unique parts such as Part* (thanks, Geremy!).
  • Show error instead of crashing when included document does not exist.
  • Support for all box styles. In CSS: switched to outline-style instead of border for boxes.
  • Support for vertical space insets.
  • Support for references inside paragraphs and formatted references.
  • Listings are now converted using <pre> tags, instead of <code>. They are also justified left.
  • Solved bug that prevented numbered listings to appear numbered (thanks, Sam!).
  • Support for generic Flex insets, including Flex CharStyle: MenuItem.
  • All entities are now generated as the Unicode U+00A0 character.
  • New option –iso885915 to generate a document with ISO-8859-15 encoding.
  • Support for Sam Liddicott’s Newfangle module for literate programming.
  • Updated the developer guide for potential contributors; added link from the main page.
  • Support for \underbrace and \overbrace.

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NaggieHands-On With Opera Mini for iPhone

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

opera mini 5 released Hands On With Opera Mini for iPhone

Opera showed off an iPhone version of the company’s Opera Mini Web browser on Monday. If Apple accepts it, it would be the first true alternative Web browser available on iPhones and iPod Touches.

Apple has so far forbidden Web browsers that complete with Safari, anything that claims to be a “browser” in the App Store is a skin or plug-in that uses Safari to do its actual browsing.

According to Opera product manager Igor Natto, Opera Mini has a chance because it isn’t actually a browser. It’s a rendering engine for a highly compressed data format called OBML, which reduces data transfer by 80 to 90 percent over surfing real, live Web pages. When you go to a page using Opera Mini, it just sends a command to Opera’s servers, which are doing the real browsing.

Opera Mini would make a great solution for iPhone users on congested or roaming networks, where every bit counts, he also added. By reducing a 1-Mbyte page to 200 Kbits, roaming fees could drop from $5 to $1 for that page.

On a horribly congested Vodafone network with lousy reception in the middle of the convention center, Opera Mini loaded the New York Times Web page much more quickly than Safari did – in maybe 10 seconds as opposed to 30. And Opera’s customized zooming always centers the column of text you’re trying to read.

Opera Mini for iPhone looks like an iPhone app, but it seems to wilfully defy iPhone user interface rules that Opera deems silly. For instance, there’s no pinch-to-zoom. Instead there’s Opera’s optimized tap-to-zoom, with just one level of zoom. Some buttons look a bit more like Opera buttons (rectangular) than like iPhone buttons (roundish). If Apple requires pinch to zoom, and will implement it, according to Natto.

The browser has both visual bookmarks on its “speed dial” page and tabs, which appear as a stack of miniature pages that you can shift around. It looks more like Opera Mini 5 on other phones than like something designed to Apple’s requirements, and Natto said that’s on purpose.

Natto said, “What we did was to take Opera Mini and port from Java to a native iPhone app”. He also said, we’ll see what Apple thinks of that when Opera decides to submit Mini to the app store.

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