Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 13:14:48 12/15/03
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On December 14, 2003 at 23:01:20, Russell Reagan wrote: >On December 14, 2003 at 08:10:43, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>Most programmers don't get into the hassle of writing their own book format. >>Instead, the time is better spent improving the automatically generated book in >>one of the common formats. > >I have to say that I agree with Uri here. You don't have to necessarily create >your own book format, but keeping the book seperate from the GUI (so that you >can use it in any GUI) is a good idea IMO. Agree. But the problem is that the specification of popular book formats is not released, so you don't have any way to read the files you create, apart from relying on the GUI. > >If more people did this, we wouldn't be having all of this CCT opposition by the >commercial authors. They could implement Winboard support and play, and so could >you. > >The point is, you have unlimited flexibility with how you handle your book if it >is handled from within the engine.
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