March 2012 - gutvol-d - lists.pglaf.org

a nagging feeling about a failure to recognize the potential
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

every so often, i am bothered by a nagging feeling that there is a significant failure at p.g. to recognize the potential out there. i got it again today, when i read this article from "wired": > http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/ff_aiclass/all/1 stanford put a class online, in the form of videos and more, for the public at large, and tens of thousands _completed_ the class. (originally signing up were _160,000_ people, but the class was on the subject of artificial intelligence, and it wasn't all that easy, so it's not surprising that the vast majority of 'em "dropped out".) also mentioned in the article is "khan academy", which has been featured in a segment on "60 minutes", and is also outstanding, hosting thousands of online video tutorials, covering matters in science, math, and economics, with a million students worldwide. the _reach_ of these projects is staggering, in my humble opinion. and again, it gives me a nagging feeling that project gutenberg -- with its alignment to the "great books" type of philosophy -- could be doing _so_much_more_... i have no suggestions, and i certainly wouldn't want to have to "defend" that nagging feeling as being "accurate", because i fervently hope i'm wrong about it... nonetheless, it haunts me... -bowerbird

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Re: [gutvol-d] sweet little proofing interface
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

it's a very good thing that i've stopped wasting time on the idiots-in-charge over at distributed proofreaders... -bowerbird

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sweet little proofing interface
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

new work, on a very sweet little proofing interface... > http://ec2-46-137-53-169.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/prooftest/cgi-bin/… you can adjust the size of the window if you like, and then zoom the text so it matches the window's width. the punctuation flags are irritating, but otherwise, very nice. best stuff i've seen in ages. check it out. -bowerbird

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[Illustration] tag in plain text from RST?
by James Simmons 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

It looks like RST does not create [Illustration] tags in plain text files. For instance, I use this: .. image:: images/bhagap011.png :alt: A diagram of concentric circles with P at the center and M' the outermost, with the Key below working inwards. hoping to get this in my plain text file: [Illustration: A diagram of concentric circles with P at the center and M' the outermost, with the Key below working inwards.] but instead I get no [Illustration] tag at all. James Simmons

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Paragraph spacing in RST?
by James Simmons 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

OK, I'm starting to get the hang of this. You can see the results here: http://epubmaker.pglaf.org/cache/20120326064027/ However, I *really* want my paragraphs to be non-indented and to have a bit of space under each one, and the same thing for block quoted text. The RST manual seems to have this, but when I look at the RST source of same I see no hint of how it is doing it. The other question I have is, how do I know what my book number will be? I have an approval to work on it from PG, but that does not include a book number. Thanks for your patience. I like RST and think it will greatly help my productivity once I have mastered it. James Simmons

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.. pgfooter:: issue
by James Simmons 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

When I put .. pgfooter:: at the bottom of my document I get this error: unzipping /htdocs/epubmaker/cache/20120326054014/BP.zip Input file: AStudyOfTheBhagavataPurana.rst EpubMaker version 0.3.19b3 :66: (SEVERE/4) Title level inconsistent: Section 1. General Terms of Use & Redistributing Project Gutenberg\u2122 electronic works ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/epubmaker", line 9, in <module> load_entry_point('epubmaker==0.3.19b3', 'console_scripts', 'epubmaker')() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/epubmaker-0.3.19b3-py2.6.egg/epubmaker/EpubMaker.py", line 370, in main exception ("%s" % what) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2122' in position 109: ordinal not in range(128) Am I missing something? James Simmons

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PG extensions to RST not recognized
by James Simmons 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

I've made some progress with the RST but I'm still having issues. Some of the PG extensions don't seem to be recognized. For instance: System Message: ERROR/3 (<string>, line 21) Unknown directive type "byline". .. byline:: BY PURNENDU NARAYANA SINHA, M. A., B. L. The image directive was working fine before but putting "byline" in messes it up: System Message: ERROR/3 (<string>, line 25) Error in "image" directive: no content permitted. .. image:: images/bhagaf004.jpg It doesn't seem to like vspace either: System Message: ERROR/3 (<string>, line 34) Error in "vspace" directive: no content permitted. .. vspace:: pb You can see all the problems here: http://epubmaker.pglaf.org/cache/20120325054028/ James Simmons

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Problems with RST conversion
by James Simmons 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

I have gone through and fixed every error message I get from my RST file. Now the only message I get is this: ERROR:root:Error building HTML /htdocs/epubmaker/cache/20120325075638/1-noimages-h.html: 'hrules' It is followed by this stack trace, repeated many times: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/epubmaker-0.3.19b2-py2.6.egg/epubmaker/writers/HTMLWriter.py", line 71, in build xhtml = p.rst2html () File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/epubmaker-0.3.19b2-py2.6.egg/epubmaker/parsers/RSTParser.py", line 335, in rst2html return self.rst2htmlish (xhtml1.Writer ()) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/epubmaker-0.3.19b2-py2.6.egg/epubmaker/parsers/RSTParser.py", line 330, in rst2htmlish return writer.fixup_xhtml (self.to_xhtml (writer.write (doc, destination), self.url)) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/docutils-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/docutils/writers/__init__.py", line 77, in write self.translate() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/docutils-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/docutils/writers/html4css1/__init__.py", line 163, in translate self.document.walkabout(visitor) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/docutils-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/docutils/nodes.py", line 173, in walkabout if child.walkabout(visitor): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/docutils-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/docutils/nodes.py", line 173, in walkabout if child.walkabout(visitor): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/docutils-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/docutils/nodes.py", line 173, in walkabout if child.walkabout(visitor): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/docutils-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/docutils/nodes.py", line 165, in walkabout visitor.dispatch_visit(self) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/epubmaker-0.3.19b2-py2.6.egg/epubmaker/mydocutils/writers/__init__.py", line 292, in dispatch_visit res = method (node) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/epubmaker-0.3.19b2-py2.6.egg/epubmaker/mydocutils/writers/xhtml1.py", line 270, in visit_table if 'table' in node['hrules']: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/docutils-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/docutils/nodes.py", line 534, in __getitem__ return self.attributes[key] KeyError: 'hrules' ERROR:root:'hrules' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/epubmaker-0.3.19b2-py2.6.egg/epubmaker/EpubMaker.py", line 350, in main writer.build () File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/epubmaker-0.3.19b2-py2.6.egg/epubmaker/writers/HTMLWriter.py", line 104, in build raise what KeyError: 'hrules' You can see the whole thing here: http://epubmaker.pglaf.org/cache/20120325075638/ It looks like the family tree thing got resolved, but I can't get any output until I get past this 'hrules' error. James Simmons

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Epubmaker
by don kretz 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

It appears that one of the qualifications for proofreader is now programming skills? Sent from my Windows Phone

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Problems with family trees in epubmaker
by James Simmons 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

I am submitting my first file in RST format to EPUBMaker online. I'm doing this as practice, to make sure I understand how the RST format works before spend a lot of time doing it wrong on a whole book. The only output I got was this: http://epubmaker.pglaf.org/cache/20120324100528/output.txt It seems that my family tree tables, and I've got lots of them, are being interpreted as incorrectly formatted tables. I thought that if you used two colons (::) to start a <pre> section that it would ignore anything it found inside there. I understood that the <pre> section would include any text that was indented and would end when the first line of unindented text was found. It looks like that doesn't work. You can look at what I submitted here: http://epubmaker.pglaf.org/cache/20120324100528/ If I can deal with the family tree diagrams somehow formatting the rest of the book should be OK. Thoughts? James Simmons

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