May 2005 - gutvol-d - lists.pglaf.org

www.gutenberg.org
by Marcello Perathoner 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

As of my request ibiblio has changed our apache virtual host ServerName from gutenberg.net to www.gutenberg.org. What? Nothing changes in web site operation except one little particular (if you hit a non-existing url you get redirected to www.gutenberg.org instead of gutenberg.net) Why? The .org top-level domain is meant for non-profit organizations while the .net domain is meant for network infrastructure such as providers, backbones etc. We own both gutenberg.net and gutenberg.org, but using the latter one is just more standard-compliant. Although both urls www.gutenberg.net and www.gutenberg.org give exactly the same results, you should start using www.gutenberg.org in all publications, papers etc. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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Help sought for text versions of Friulan 'Dante'
by Greg Newby 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

Anyone feel like wrestling with file conversion? I've just put this file for download: http://pglaf.org/~gbnewby/dante.zip It contains three RTF files, plus a JPG image. I think only dante-inferno is an intact file, though. The task is to create a plain text file in ISO-8859-1 encoding, but to properly identify and save the footnotes (as endnotes). I've been messing with this in MS Word (for Mac) and a few OpenOffice variations, and just can't get it to save right. It might be that it just needs some tender loving hand-editing to create a plain text version. Please let me (& the list) know if you might be able to spend some time with this. I think the footnotes in the other two volumes (purgatorio & paradiso) are missing, and am asking the author for them. Thanks! Greg

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Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!!
by rvijay07 30 May '05

30 May '05

All related documents that need to be read in this regard: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/apps.html#MM Festival Speech Synthesis System - Table of Contents http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/ festival man page http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/festival1.html "Festival is very quiet. How do I make it louder?" http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/cgi-bin/cs...val/volume.html Sharing this here for future general reference of everyone interested in this topic. Regards, Vijay _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Re: [gutvol-d] Technical Collection for Consideration.
by Joshua Hutchinson 30 May '05

30 May '05

What is our official stance on stuff like this? There are some pretty useful documents out there that we could probably add to the collection under the circumstances Marcello describes. Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcello Perathoner" <marcello(a)perathoner.de> To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Technical Collection for Consideration. Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:11:28 +0200 > > Jonathan Ingram wrote: > > > Sadly the overly long length of modern copyright terms mean that we won't > > see a > > large influx of public domain computer programming material for a while. > > Many FSF books are copylefted. One I should definitely like to see in the > collection is: > > Free Software Free Society > > selected essays of > > Richard M. Stallman > > > My paper copy says: > > "Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this book > provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved on all copies." > > > -- Marcello Perathoner > webmaster(a)gutenberg.org > > _______________________________________________ > gutvol-d mailing list > gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d

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Re: [gutvol-d] Dear Jon and Bowerbird
by Joshua Hutchinson 29 May '05

29 May '05

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Tinsley" <jtinsley(a)pobox.com> > > How say the rest of you -- should we erase the graffiti? > Well, I think we can all agree most of the problem is one particular person. As someone who has been "dragged into a mudfight" with this person before, I know how easy it is. All of his negative qualities not-withstanding ... he is an amazingly good troll. Jon, while in this instance is posting a high noise-to-signal ratio, has on many occasions posted some very well thoughtout and useful information. While some out there may disagree with how far he wants PG to go on the meta-data front, he has some very good ideas in this area and has shown a willingness to discuss constructively. The other person in the matter has not shown any of these good qualities. I think we should ban bowerbird permanently from the list. In my opinion, the noise on this list drops to a very low level when he goes away for short periods. While no one will be surprised that I advocate banning bowerbird, I think this is something he has brought upon himself. Josh

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Re: [for the graphics wizards] Cleaning up original Burton "Kama Sutra" page scans -- need advice/help
by Juhana Sadeharju 29 May '05

29 May '05

>From: Jon Noring <jon(a)noring.name> > >for free access. [For those interested, the book is the 1885 second >printing of the second edition of Sir Richard F. Burton's "Kama Sutra >of Vatsyayana".] Please do *not* make them bitonal (black and white only)!!!!!!! You could also save time and do only the color manipulation (e.g., "gamma"). Could you place all the original scannings available for me? I could place the scannings available at our site. I also would like to process the images myself before you ruin them. Use of "gamma" most likely is not the way to improve the images. I will pick up the two example images and do experimentations. Takes a few days before I mail again with results. I have earlier done this kind of automatic level blancing in which I additionally flattened the curved pages (dark near the binding). >version for direct reading. For those who will probably ask, the raw >page scans have already been uploaded to Distributed Proofreaders for >conversion to structured digital text.] Are those original 8-bit images? How to download them from DP? What are the direct links to the pages? Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software

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Re: [gutvol-d] Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!!
by rvijay07 27 May '05

27 May '05

root@box:/home/vijay# /bin/lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted nls_iso8859-1 2844 0 (autoclean) ppp_deflate 2936 0 (autoclean) zlib_deflate 17304 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate] bsd_comp 3960 0 (autoclean) ppp_async 7232 1 (autoclean) ppp_generic 22816 3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async] slhc 4560 0 (autoclean) [ppp_generic] parport_pc 25128 1 (autoclean) lp 7460 1 parport 22496 1 [parport_pc lp] autofs4 8756 1 af_packet 13544 0 agpgart 42724 0 (unused) awe_wave 155744 0 (unused) sb 7796 1 sb_lib 33518 0 [sb] uart401 6052 0 [sb_lib] sound 55244 1 [awe_wave sb_lib uart401] soundcore 3428 6 [sb_lib sound] 8139too 13768 0 mii 2240 0 [8139too] de4x5 39488 0 crc32 2816 0 [8139too de4x5] serial 52068 2 ataraid 6404 0 (unused) ieee1394 183300 0 pcmcia_core 39840 0 apm 9736 2 ide-scsi 9040 0 rtc 7004 0 (autoclean) ext3 64388 1 (autoclean) jbd 46804 1 (autoclean) [ext3] root@box:/home/vijay# and root@box:/home/vijay# modprobe soundcore root@box:/home/vijay# --- On Fri 05/27, Richard Cohen < richard(a)daijobu.co.uk > wrote: From: Richard Cohen [mailto: richard(a)daijobu.co.uk] To: rvijay07(a)myway.com Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:04:29 +0100 Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!! OK, try<br><br># /bin/lsmod<br> _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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re: [gutvol-d] jim's not answering the call
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 27 May '05

27 May '05

melissa said: > oh shut up. thanks, melissa! you have a nice weekend too! :+) -bowerbird

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jim's not answering the call
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 27 May '05

27 May '05

it appears jim isn't gonna tell me what it is that i don't know about what project gutenberg "does" here. i guess, like many people, he feels this listserve is a place to make attacks, but not to back them up... and that's too bad, because i am quite certain that i can help jim by writing software to help him "do" what he "does". so jim, why not be constructive and tell me what kind of software that might be? what do you need? what would you actually _use_?... while i have a very good idea myself, concerning what you might _need_, i have no confidence that you would actually _use_ any program i wrote, so i would be open to your suggestions... as it is, i'll be releasing a program called "wordplay" in a week or so that might prove to be useful to you, even though -- as its name implies -- entertainment is one of its goals too... -bowerbird

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re: [gutvol-d] Re: [for the graphics wizards] Cleaning up original Burton "Kama Sutra" page scans -- need advice/help
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 27 May '05

27 May '05

jon said: > I'm not sure if I can give out the ftp user:pass at 'dpscans', > since it was given to me in confidence you have been telling us, often, that the internet archive will host scans. so why not make the scans available there? or put them up on a website of your own, such as the one for openreader. at your convenience, of course. :+) -bowerbird

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