[Oberon] Oberon for a C++ user.

[Pablo Cayuela]

Thank you for the processed file.

Pablo Cayuela

On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Chris Burrows <chris at cfbsoftware.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: eas lab [mailto:lab.eas at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, 6 November 2016 5:32 PM
> > To: chris at cfbsoftware.com; ETH Oberon and related systems
> > Subject: Re: [Oberon] Oberon for a C++ user.
> >
> > A reader commented on ETHO material being 'dated'.
> >
> > > ... by Clemens Szyperski published in 1992.
> >
> > I fetched this and it seems excellent,
> > except that I'm shackled to using the LASTEST/ garbage x64Windows, so
> > I can't examine the text in a structured way [like a tree].
> >
> > It needs multiple TextFrames to eg.
> > 1. scan the contents, and decide to go to <HCI> page 159 2. where he
> > mentions "Ethos": so, keeping pg 159 and in 3. a 3rd TextFrame
> > searching for his explanation re. Ethos.
> >
>
> When reading PDF files in Windows there are several ways to have more than
> one view at a time e.g.
>
> 1. There is a split-screen control at the top of the vertical scroll bar.
> Drag this down and you will have two separately controllable views on the
> document.
>
> 2. You can usually open a PDF file more than once. E.g. a) in Acrobat
> select Window > New Window, b) In internet Explorer select File > New Window
>
> Also recent Windows versions have additional Windows management features
> (e.g. for tiling Windows) that you may not be aware of if you have only
> just upgraded. Google for "windows 10 windows management tricks" for some
> tips on how to do this.
>
> > PS. it's a pity that the *.pdf  is not, mostly reconvertible to text,
> > except by OCR. Such material is efficiently absorbed by TextToSpeech,
> > depending on the users life-style.
>
> Yes - it’s a pity that some who scan these documents do not seem to know
> how to add bookmarks and add text search and text-to-speech capability.
> It's not that difficult to do.
>
> The full version of Adobe Acrobat has a neat Tools > Recognize text
> feature which does the equivalent of an OCR scan of the document and
> creates searchable text. I have just converted this document and the text
> to speech function also appears to work. I've also added some bookmarks to
> the document for you so you can use the Acrobat navigation pane to jump to
> a particular section of the document. You can download this updated version
> of the document from:
>
> http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp/eth-38713-02 Insight Ethos.pdf  (8.86 MB
> file)
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
> Chris Burrows
> CFB Software
> http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp
>
>
>
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