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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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hope springs eternal
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

spring has sprung. and again, hope reappears like the green of the grass. so let me repeat the fundamental message once again. you can take a file that is _very_much_like_ a p.g. e-text and code computer programs that will use it to generate an .html version of the e-book (or, really, a wide array of .html versions of the e-book, according to your desires), _and_ an .epub file, _and_ a .mobi file, _and_ a .pdf too, plus some i.o.s., android, and web-app versions as well... this method will work on 98.6% of the books that're in p.g. i have been delivering this message for many years now... at first, almost nobody believed; eventually, everyone will. you were wrong. i was right. i told you so. -bowerbird

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enlightenment attained
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

i received my print-on-demand of "e-book enlightenment" -- the book by james -- so now i have the paperwork that i am officially enlightened. the book looks great, james... i expected color images, because that's what's in the .pdf, but they're black-and-white in the p-book. still, that's ok. and in other news, jeroen hellingman over at d.p. has now post-processed 500 books for p.g., a big accomplishment, especially considering that some of the projects he tackles are far more complicated to digitize than the average book. as he points out, 500 books is a book a week for 10 years, so that gives you an idea of the degree of dedication there. congratulations, jeroen. -bowerbird

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what is all this noise about?
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

this listserve is too heterogeneous and disparate -- those are 2 nice words for "scatterbrained" -- to bring any kind of "formal charges" against p.g. you complain about their submission policies? why? in spite of any problems with the written policies, the p.g. library managed to amass 30,000 books. so someone seems to have worked out how to submit a book to p.g., and p.g. seems to have figured out how to accept it and place it online. for the rare people out there who don't know how, it boils down to a negotiation between a producer and a p.g. whitewasher, until the producer molds a type of submission the whitewasher has in mind. even the most experienced producers have to go through this process, including independent ones -- like nicholas hodson, who's done 700 books -- and d.p. stalwarts like rfrank, lucy24, and others, many of whom have now digitized nearly as many. you're just giving al an "easy out" for his response, not to mention good reasons for him to stay away from this listserve altogether in the future, just like the other whitewashers have already "learned" to do, after having become convinced that listening to you "is a big waste of time". can't say that i blame them. you'll need to be far more focused and constructive. -bowerbird p.s. and john, you want to be told how you can help? al has told us, indirectly but very clearly nonetheless, that p.g. does not want any help from us, thank you... unless we're a cog in their "produce a book" machine. because, you know, their status quo is so peachy keen.

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Re: [gutvol-d] What was all that noise about?
by John Redmond 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

BB said: "we just had the two _heaviest_ months _ever_ in the amount of text posted to this listserve. yet i can't recall that i learned a single thing." I agree! I keep watching and hoping--and I still have absolutely NO sense of whether or how I might contribute! How about a prioritized to-do list? John Redmond

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