i'm a busy little bee these days... let's see... *** i'm waiting on a response from jim so i can continue to analyze his tool, and work on my support-application... *** i grabbed the "frankenstein" content from lee passey's site, and have mounted my own version of the book over here:

http://z-m-l.com/go/fpass/dofpass.pl

the perl script lets you step through the pages of the book. the script shows lee's .html files as they were when grabbed. i don't wanna mess with the complications of an .html editor, so i won't be bothering to offer an edit capability on the text, at least not quite yet... i mention this because editing is one of the thorny aspects of using .html as your saved-text format. lee is using the "kupu" html-editor. too much trouble for me, and likely far too many cross-browser inconsistencies as well. but those are lee's problems to solve, not mine. good luck, lee. *** here's a little script that tells you if a word you enter is present in the dictionary that i use. i'm not sure why you'd want to know such information, but the script was developed in support of my spiffy spellchecking feature, so it's there if you _do_ have a need:

http://z-m-l.com/go/dict17577.pl

*** i'm finishing up a long post on intelligent filenaming. yes, again. but there's a good angle, important enough to warrant exposition. the angle, to steal my own thunder, is that you can easily use the pagenumber information that's contained in the o.c.r. files to rename your .txt and .png files in a more-intelligent manner. if the pagenumber in file "011.txt" says that it's pagenumber 7, you'll rename "011.txt" and "011.png" to "007.txt" and "007.png". easy as pie! *** and finally, i'm still coding my online proofing system. it's grand. i love my tools... anyway, i'll probably unveil the thing next week. yeah, yeah, i know, you can hardly wait, you're so excited... ;+) -bowerbird