Plucker User Guide

The Plucker Team

               
            

Revision History
Revision 0.012004-09-21Revised by: dd
Initial SGML conversion of Plucker manual from LaTeX source material.

Plucker is a free multiplatform tool for reading text files, ebooks and Web content on Palm OS handheld device.

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The source version of this SGML can always be found here: Plucker_Manual

Table of Contents
1. Preface
1.1. System Requirements
1.1.1. Device
1.1.2. How Plucker Works
1.1.3. Converters
1.2. Conventions
1.3. We'd like some Feedback
2. Installation and Quickstart Manual
2.1. OS specific instructions
2.1.1. OS/2
2.1.2. Unix/Linux
2.1.3. Windows
2.2. Basic Customization, Before you begin
2.2.1. Specifying the pages you want to view - The Home Document
2.3. Running the Parser
2.4. Transfer to your Palm
2.4.1. pilot-link
2.4.2. The Windows Conduit
2.5. Finally..
3. Viewer
3.1. Basic Operations
3.1.1. Starting The Viewer
3.1.2. The Main Screen
3.2. Customization
3.2.1. Font and layout
3.2.2. Keyboard and graffiti
3.2.3. Preferences
3.2.4. Tap Actions
3.2.5. Gesture Actions
3.2.6. Button Actions
3.2.7. Autoscroll Options
3.2.8. Lookup Options
3.3. Find Function
3.4. Document Library
3.5. Bookmarks
4. Plucker Plugin Interface
5. The Parser
5.1. Description file
5.2. Invoking the parser
5.2.1. Control Over the Result
5.2.2. Status Information and Debugging
5.2.3. Description filenames
5.2.4. How deep should we go?
5.2.5. Plucker Home and the Plucker Directory
5.2.6. Image handling
5.2.7. URL handling
5.2.8. Excluding Things
5.2.9. Sections
5.3. The Configuration File
5.3.1. [DEFAULT]
5.3.2. [POSIX]
5.3.3. [OS2]
5.3.4. [WINDOWS]
5.4. The Exclusion List
5.5. Use Cases
5.5.1. Pluck local targets
5.5.2. Pluck remote targets
A. GNU Free Documentation License
0. Preamble
1. Applicability and Definitions
2. Verbatim Copying
3. Copying in Quantity
4. Modifications
5. Combining Documents
6. Collections of Documents
7. Aggregation with Independent Works
8. Translation
9. Termination
10. Future Revisions of this License
How to use this License for your documents
List of Tables
3-1. Keyboard/Graffiti Actions
3-2. Tap Actions
3-3. Gesture Action
3-4. Gesture Action
5-1. Levels of Verbosity
5-2. [DEFAULT] Configuration File Parameters
5-3. [POSIX] Configuration File Parameters
5-4. [OS2] Configuration File Parameters
5-5. [OS2] Configuration File Parameters
5-6. Exclusion List Parameters
List of Figures
3-1. The Main Screen
3-2. Mail Form
3-3. Copy URL
3-4. The Preferences
3-5. Tap Action Configuration
3-6. Gesture Action Configuration
3-7. Button Actions
3-8. Autoscroll Options
3-9. The Find Function
3-10. The Result Page
3-11. The Document Library
3-12. The Category Screen
3-13. Bookmarks
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