ThotBook

This page is an initial homepage for the new ThotBook project. The project is hosted at FreeSoftware.FSF.org, courtesy of the Free-Software Foundation.

Project status

ThotBook is in the early phases of a project. Interested parties are gathering, and strategy, design & implementation decisions are being discussed on the ThotBook-dev mailing-list.

Planed milestones

• release 0.1
  1. Get ThotEditor working or make a basic editor with the new ThotLib (benj)
     This is needed for any serious work on DocBook customization of ThotLib, although draft work can already be done using old precompiled binaries of ThotEditor 2.1e (see links below)
  2. Add automake/libtool support to Amaya
  3. Write a minimal S structure schema, and P presentation stylesheet, and stick with it for some time (yann)
  4. Write a T transformer for SGML and XML export
• release 0.2
  1. Extend S, P, and T descriptions for "simplified docbook"
• release 0.3
  1. SGML/XML importer

And next...

Here are some ideas that we will probably implement in the distant future:

• A helper mechanism to keep in sync translations of document in several languages (by autogeneration and matching of ID's).
• A system to help learning foreign languages, by comparative studying of real texts' translations, based on the same mechanism.
• More ideas are welcome.

Links

• Other ThotBook resources
  • The savannah page for ThotBook
  • A mini-FAQ to ThotBook
  • Online access to the CVS repository
  • Searchable mailing-list archives at mail-archive.com
• ThotLib
  • Amaya, which includes and uses Thotlib
  • The Thot API manual explains how the Thotlib works and gives the list of available functions
  • The Thot language manual gives the syntax of the S, P and T languages.
  • The Thot Application generation manual explains how to generate menus and the mechanism of Thot events.
  • The Amaya-dev page gives the conventions for writing code in the Thotlib and in Amaya.
• ThotEditor
  • The ThotEditor homepage
  • A precompiled binary for GNU-Linux/libc6, and older precompiled binaries of ThotEditor 2.1e for GNU-Linux/libc5, Solaris 2.5, AIX 4.1, OSF/1, and Irix.
  • Screenshots of Thoteditor in action
• DocBook
  • The Docbook OpenRepository
  • Missing: links to CSS stylesheets for DocBook

Sponsors

• Alcove.