How far have I gotten? Well, it's about half-way done. :-)

Actually I have the basic framework laid out in ztkdb. Go there and look at the screenshot. You can see the leftframe, the tabbed notebook, and the db access already to go. You could use that right now, by setting up a graphic thumbnail for each chapter, and assigning more tabs in the configuration file. You would have a chapter-scene layout.

But I havn't yet worked out the best way to store things in a db for a novel yet, so they can be retreived either by character, chapter or scene. But it will come to me. That ztkdb program is a graphical frontend to dbm, and if you play with it's configuration file, you can set it up for just about anything you want. But of course, it could be "optimized" to handle novel text entries. Feel free to take it and run with it. Here is a sample of what the configuration file might look like ( you can probably remove the sql search fields, but experiment first):

..snip.....
######################################################################
$user = 'zentara';                     #database user name for Pg or M
+ySql
$password = 'foobar';                        #db user password
$db = 'SQLite'; #or 'Pg' or 'mysql'    #select db
#$db = 'Pg';
###################################################################
####these are the catagories for your text tabs#### 8 allowed
$texttab1='Intro';
$texttab2='First Act';
$texttab3='Second Act';
$texttab4='Third Act';
$texttab5='Fourth Act';
$texttab6='Fifth Act';
$texttab7='Sixth Act';
$texttab8='Finish';

## run the color script for names of colors

### colors for the text tabs, do not choose
### dark colors or it will mask text
### these defaults are nice
$tabcolor1='bisque';
$tabcolor2='lightyellow';
$tabcolor3='azure';
$tabcolor4='PeachPuff';
$tabcolor5='pink';
$tabcolor6='OldLace';
$tabcolor7='wheat1';
$tabcolor8='khaki';
#################################################################
...snip....
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