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Re: [gutvol-d] Nightly feed of clearance information--Possible?
by D. Starner 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

"Greg Newby" writes: > Is this style enough, from two recent clearances: > > OK 20050104154143pergaud Le roman de Miraut, chien de chasse Louis Pergaud 1913:c > > OK 20050104152050malot En famille Hector Malot 1895:c OK, based on library > stamp.--Juliet As one of the people who wants this, that would fine. It'd be nice to have all the authors names, though, especially translators. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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Looking for text editor which does ...
by Jon Noring 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

Everyone, A basic question... I'd like to get the recommendations of the long-timers here for a Windows-based GUI text editor or utility which cleans up *selected* paragraphs of text (in plain text documents) to create uniform line lengths with hard line breaks. The situation is that I have a large marked-up text document where many paragraphs have varying and (many times) quite long line lengths. For example, a paragraph may consist of three lines, the first may be 250 characters long, the second 50 characters long, and the third 120 characters long -- and I'd like to "regularize" the paragraph with lines exactly 70 characters or less in length (this paragraph is an example of such "regularization".) I'd like to simply select those three lines in the utility, click a button or something, and the text is automagically "regularized" (no hyphenation, one space between words, etc.) It gets quite laborious doing this by hand with my text editor of choice, vi (I use Lemmy, a Windows vi-clone, for most of my text editing needs.) I do NOT want a tool which only globally does this to the whole document (i.e. there are longer lines in the document which I wish to keep unbroken.) And I do NOT want a tool requiring typing in a long command line -- by the time I do that I could regularize the paragraph by hand in my editor. I just want to select and regularize. So, what's out there? Obviously Project Gutenbergers must use various tools to "regularize" paragraphs. (There's no doubt a different word most everyone here uses to describe this process, but I don't know what it is, thus the use of the word "regularize".) Thanks. Jon Noring

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Nightly feed of clearance information--Possible?
by Wallace J.McLean 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

This has been discussed at PGDP as well. I'm all for it... but I'd go for semi-anonymized: there should be a mechanism whereby people with similar interests can find one another, collaborate, and minimize duplication of effort, after bumping into each other in the virtual stacks. ----- Original Message ----- >From D Garcia <donovan(a)abs.net> Date Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:10:39 -0500 To gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org Subject [gutvol-d] Nightly feed of clearance information--Possible? It would be excellent to have a nightly-updated feed of appropriately anonymized Cleared clearances published by PG in the same or similar format as the Catalog feed.

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Dead, down, broken, missing, empty Gutenberg mirrors
by David A. Desrosiers 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

I just took a few minutes to check the mirror list (mostly because the ibiblio rsync mirror is now so slow, a 9600 modem would be faster at sending bits across). Here's what I found: d == domain down/dead a == access required r == connection refused e == empty collection w == wrong path (for ftp mirrors) 4 == 404 (for http mirrors) l == limit reached [d] ftp://ftpbook.dhs.org/mirrors/gutenberg/ [a] ftp://elib.phil.pku.edu.cn/pub/gutenberg/ [r] ftp://dlib.eramisp.com/gut/ [e] http://gutenberg.kk.dk/ [w] ftp://www.artfiles.org/gutenberg.org/ [e] ftp://ftp.iif.hu/pub/gutenberg/ [4] http://gutenberg.unipmn.it/mirror/ [l] ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/metalab.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/ [w] ftp://ftp.samurai.com/pub/gutenberg/ [d] http://www.atexiansattic.com/www2/gutenberg/ [e] http://www.spiritdancers.org/pg/ Maybe this will be useful to others who maintain that SQL dump list. David A. Desrosiers desrod(a)gnu-designs.com http://gnu-designs.com

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Top 1000 collection list and suggestion
by Steve Herber 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

I found this list recently: TECH BIT: Top 1000 Most Widely Held Library Books OCLC Research, a division of the international Online Computer Library Center, has compiled a list of the top 1000 titles owned by its 50,000+ member libraries. View the top 10 (which includes the Bible, Mother Goose, and The Lord of the Rings) or all 1000 titles online. http://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/ http://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/complete.htm An annotated version of this list with two extra pieces of data would make an interesting Project Gutenberg web page. I would like to see a link to the Gutenberg edition and the date the item went into or will go into the public domain. I think some people will start to see the negative aspect of the long copyright times at the same time discovering how many documents are available from the Project. I am not currently on the mail list, so you may have already discussed this list. Cheers, -- Steve Herber herber(a)thing.com work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399

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Jules Verne French texts
by N Wolcott 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

Although there are 19 French texts of Jules Verne on PG, there at least 17 more ready to go which only require converting from html to text format. I have identified at least V008, V010 .V014, V016, V017, V020, V024, V037, V043, V039, V047, V052, V055, V060 which are available at http://jv.gilead.org.il/works.html. Use the list at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/sherwood/Voyages_Extraordinaire.htm as a Vxxx check list. Several of these are also on http://www.ebooksgratuits.com/ (which also has many others and from which the above may have been taken) already in Word format. This conversion is not a big job, and no doubt the more technical of you already have software which will do the conversion at a click. It would be nice if PG could have as many of the 65 Voyages Extraordinaires on by March 24, the centenary of Verne's death when many celebrations are planned.. While some of these have trickled on to PG from time to time, a more concerted effort is required to finish the job. N Wolcott nwolcott2(a)post.harvard.edu

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Preferred diacritical mark
by Phil Hitchcock 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

I am currently preparing e-text versions of "W H Sleeman's, Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official". The book describes life and customs in India in the 1830's. Many of the place names, personal names, and various other words have a dash - placed over an a, e, i, or u, to indicate a long vowel. When I produce the 7-bit ASCII plain text, these marks will be missing; in the 8-bit ASCII version I am planning to use a circumflex accent ^ to replace the diacritical mark. However in a HTML version I could use the circumflex accent, or I could use the Unicode series starting with Ā to give a vowel with a dash over it, thus reproducing the original text form. However I have seen some present day publications using the circumflex accent on Indian place names. Thus, I am wondering what the Project Gutenberg preferred form would be for the diacritical mark in the HTML version. Philip Hitchcock Hertfordshire, UK. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.11 - Release Date: 12/01/05

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Re: [gutvol-d] Preferred diacritical mark
by D. Starner 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

"Phil Hitchcock" writes: > I am currently preparing e-text versions of "W H Sleeman's, Rambles and > Recollections of an Indian Official". The book describes life and customs in > India in the 1830's. > > Many of the place names, personal names, and various other words have a > dash - placed over an a, e, i, or u, to indicate a long vowel. > > When I produce the 7-bit ASCII plain text, these marks will be missing; in > the 8-bit ASCII version I am planning to use a circumflex accent ^ to > replace the diacritical mark. > > However in a HTML version I could use the circumflex > accent, or I could use the Unicode series starting with Ā to give a > vowel with a dash over it, thus reproducing the original text form. However > I have seen some present day publications using the circumflex accent on > Indian place names. > > Thus, I am wondering what the Project Gutenberg preferred form would be for > the diacritical mark in the HTML version. Always replicate what's in the book. There is sometimes a call for modernized versions, but we should have the original, unmodernized version first. I think using the circumflex in the Latin-1* version to be a suitable replacement, especially as that's what modern users are using, but put a transcriber's note at the top of the document noting that's what you've done. * There is no such thing as 8-bit ASCII. There's only 7-bit ASCII. There are 8-bit extensions to ASCII, literaly hundreds of them. Latin-1 (also known ISO standard 8859, part 1, or ISO-8859-1) is the one that PG usually uses; it's very similar to CP-1252 (for most purposes, a subset of CP-1252), the character set that Windows 95 on uses for Western Europe, and most likely you're most familiar with one of those two. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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Wired Magazine "gets it" on copyright
by Hagerson, John 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/view.html?pg=5

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perl helper found
by John Hagerson 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

Thank you! John Hagerson

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