July 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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What the Hack?! and other conferences next week
by Branko Collin 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

A dr. Newby from Alaska will be selling elixir, er, holding talks about search engines and culture preservation programs at the What The Hack hacker camp in the Netherlands next week. I know where I am going to be! http://www.whatthehack.org/ and http://program.whatthehack.org/ In the meantime a Juliet S. is going to be involved in an online conference on ebooks on Thursday, which everybody can follow at http://www.planetlibrary.info/lgleindex.htm after downloading a "small, safe plug-in". (Can I see the source code?) -- branko collin collin(a)xs4all.nl

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Problems with PG uploads
by D Garcia 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Quite a few of the DP folks are seeing the following error when uploading files to PF for the WW Team: "Aborting: no user information!" Some are reporting that the upload confirmation email does arrive, a few have reported that the email does not arrive at all. I believe it may have already been reported to help(a)pglaf.org, but I wondered if others have been experiencing this issue, and if anything was known yet.

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Rule 6 Question
by Greg Weeks 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Is it possible to do a rule 6 clearance on a book where the author isn't a US national? Didn't non-US copyright holders only get the extension during the 1924-1964 block when they either renewed or filed for a "Notice of Intent to Enforce (NIE) a Restored Copyright"? Or is it just much more complicated than that? -- Greg Weeks http://durendal.org:8080/greg/

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re: [gutvol-d] In-Reply-to
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

anne said: > I use AOL and I'm not having that kind of problem. well, you're using a different build of the a.o.l. client, on windows, not a mac, so it's apples and oranges... but nonetheless, i don't see an in-reply-to header on your post either, so yes, the problem _is_ there... -bowerbird

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Re: [gutvol-d] In-Reply-to
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

In a message dated 7/27/2005 4:42:55 PM Mountain Daylight Time, Bowerbird(a)aol.com writes: so it looks like it really is a.o.l. (it's not just convenient to blame them; it's usually the correct attribution to make.) I use AOL and I'm not having that kind of problem. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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banana-cream -- demo program for scan-sets
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

greg asked for examples... so i've got myself a little program here which displays the images in a scan-set, with an edit-field alongside for the text... you can thumb through the scan-pages by clicking buttons or using the cursor-keys... you can view the text for just one page or load in the text for the entire book... (it will auto-scroll to the appropriate point as you summon up each new page-scan.) for this demo version, which i will upload as soon as greg gives me the information, i used jon noring's "my antonia" example... the app looks in its folder (or "directory", for you p.c. people) for the image-file and displays it if it finds it there. if it doesn't, it downloads it from the openreader site, and then displays it. very fast on fat pipes, maybe not so fast if you're still on dial-up... if you want, you can download all the images in one fell swoop while you're out to lunch or taking a nap. (or overnight with a modem.) once the file for a page is downloaded once, it's saved on your machine for your later use... (or, if you want, you can download the images in the single .zip file on the openreader site, and then unzip them yourself into the folder where you have placed this demo-program.) this demo -- which i dubbed "banana-cream" -- is a cut-down version of my proofing program which you might remember is called "pudding". i threw in some pudding-style features for y'all, for the fun of it. the app finds and highlights quoted passages. some people try to tell you that you should use "curly" quotes in your text. what a pain in the rear! have the viewer-app do that conversion automatically for the reader -- if the reader requests it. that's a lot easier. after all, converting quotes isn't rocket-science; most word-processors can do the job nowadays. (except far too many of them make mistakes! i feel my routine does a better job. but i have included it in this program because if it _does_ make any mistakes, i expect that you'll tell me, and then i can improve the logic as necessary.) i also threw in a text-to-speech thing, because i believe it's a neat way for you to do proofing. (but sorry, that feature won't work on linux.) there is also a powerful "find" capability, so you can view all the occurrences of the search term, and then click to the specific one you want to, or step through them one-by-one to see 'em all... adjustable text-size. full-screen no-menu feature. history capability to track back through your trail. and header-finding to create a table-of-contents that it installs in a menu on the menu-bar for you, plus the ability to jump through the chapter-titles. let me think, i know i put something else in there. oh yeah, a simple-but-powerful _linking_ capability, so the table of contents, for instance, becomes live. this demo-app is also a cut-down version of "give", my viewer-program, where this linking capability is far more full-featured. but i thought you might like a taste, a taste of banana-cream pie... i don't feel like releasing "pudding" quite yet, but i _will_ take feature-requests for "banana-cream". if y'all can put together a list of specifications that impresses me, i'll be happy to implement them and we can go from there. on the other hand, if you're not interested, then i'll spend my time elsewhere... -bowerbird

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Re: Scans and Texts
by Juhana Sadeharju 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

>From: David Starner <prosfilaes(a)gmail.com> > >That's what the OCR program likes. Distributed Proofreaders are very >likely to continue producing B&W 300 dpi scans in most cases for the >near future. I thought we wanted additionally in future to produce the image versions of the books. If so, the 16 level 100-200 dpi versions should be made from non-B&W scans. Note that 1-bit 600 dpi images may be generated later from 8-bit 200-300 dpi images. I suggest to scan, e.g., with 8-bit 300 dpi and immediately convert both to 1-bit 600 dpi and to 4-bit 150 dpi if original scans are too much. >> * The original print is more pleasant to read than the ascii >> or html text. > >In some cases, but that generally indicates you're handling it wrong. I have no effect on how the computer displays the ascii and html texts. >> * Math text is better in its original print than in the TeX or >> math-html equivalent. > >Typewritten text with equations added in in pen is better than TeX? I >think there's good reasons why Knuth made TeX. I have scanned math books printed at 1890. The default TeX font and layout looks awful compared to the books. Equations added with pen seems to have been a bad trend between 1960-1990 when publishers, such as Springer, started accepting the author-provided camera-ready prints. The authors at worst did use manual typeset machine. However, a few authors used Troff and TeX without the pen inked equations. Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software

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Re: [gutvol-d] In-Reply-to
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

nope. that didn't work either. so it looks like it really is a.o.l. (it's not just convenient to blame them; it's usually the correct attribution to make.) :+) i'll see if i can dig up any information on this. i'll also try some experiments to see if any of those give the header you want whenever i post some actual messages. but the a.o.l. approach is to not give us idiots any rope with which to hang ourselves, so i might be out of luck in regard to providing any solution... on the positive side, it sure makes it easy to filter out my posts, don't you think? ;+) -bowerbird

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Re: [gutvol-d] In-Reply-to
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

nope. that didn't work. perhaps it's because i "change" the subject-line by replacing the uppercase "re:" with a lowercase one? so i didn't do that on this e-mail. let's see if this works. -bowerbird p.s. so, did they get that fuel-gauge fixed on the shuttle? or did they just decide to go ahead with it not working right? maybe they figured since there are no filling stations anyway, it really didn't matter if the gauge worked correctly or not...

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