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project marcello
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 02 May '12

02 May '12

how about we just rename it "project marcello" and be done with it? -bowerbird

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happy may day!
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 01 May '12

01 May '12

happy may day! high praise and deep thanks for the volunteers who do the work! -bowerbird

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Microsoft Invests in Nook
by James Adcock 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

http://tinyurl.com/cuxcjn6

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roger frank disagrees
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 28 Apr '12

28 Apr '12

.zml documents can be converted to .html, .epub, .mobi, and .pdf. roger frank says that he "disagrees". but i'm doing those conversions. i'm doing them now. right now. or, to put it in other words, there is no longer any question at all -- and, to be more accurate, there hasn't been for a long time -- about whether this _can_ be done or not. it _is_ being done. now. so it's not something you can "disagree" with. unless you think you negate a fact by denying it. when all you're really doing is sticking your head in a hole. -bowerbird

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Re: [gutvol-d] Al in the newspaper
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

> http://www.timescolonist.com/news/feeling+bookish/6522104/story.html my word. al haines has something of a resemblance to a friend of mine. > http://zenmagiclove.com/misc/gmtable.html -bowerbird

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Al in the newspaper
by Andrew Sly 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

In the local paper I just saw a picture of Al Haines in an article about the upcoming massive annual Times Colonist booksale. Looking handsome as ever, Al. --Andrew

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Re: [gutvol-d] Creating a list of unknown words from a text document
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

james said: > Carlo, > This is an excellent suggestion, > much better than I had hoped for what, you didn't like my suggestion to program it yourself? you would rather use canned programs? what fun is that? :+) anyway, i'd love to see the output file. can you dropbox it? > I tried the command and it worked the first time. ok, so let's play this out for an "average" user, like me... i tried your command. i got this: > -bash: enchant: command not found so what do i do next? (mac, snow leopard.) -bowerbird

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Creating a list of unknown words from a text document
by James Simmons 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

I recently donated the etext "A Study Of The Bhagavata Purana" to PG and my next project is to reissue this book in print using CreateSpace. I'm using OpenOffice to do the work and it is up to the job. However, I see that OO has a feature that could make my CreateSpace book better than the original--I can create an index, which the original book did not have and really could use. Before I can do this I need to identify the words that I want in my index. It occurred to me that an easy way to get this list of words would be to identify all the words in the book that are NOT in an English dictionary, then sort, eliminate duplicates, and delete names that are too obscure to care about. My first thought to create such a list was to use gutspell to generate a list that I could run through a series of filters to get what I want. The problem with gutspell is it only works with plain ascii text, not UTF-8. If it could deal with UTF-8 it would be a good start. So the question for the group is, do you know of a tool that can read through a UTF-8 text file and make a list of all the words that are not found in an English dictionary? If there is extra wordage like gutspell gives I can filter that out. Using the ascii version of the file with gutspell is not an answer. I need the accents in the word list. I have Linux, Windows, and a Mac so any tool on any platform will be considered. Thanks, James Simmons

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that silly wager
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

last weekend was the 2-year anniversary of a 3-year "wager" which michael hart and i made way back on april 21st, 2010. i'd posted "longstanding question has finally been answered", a message noting that the ipad -- on the verge of release -- had answered the frequently-debated question as to whether general-purpose machines or dedicated e-readers would win. the 300,000 pre-orders for the ipad were convincing to me... but michael differed, saying dedicated e-readers would prevail. we eventually settled into a bet where he made me pick a date when the number of ipads would surpass kindles/nooks/sonys. i thought it would be from 1-to-3 years, max, so i said that... > http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/private/gutvol-d/2010-April/006648.html and so the wager was formalized... > http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/private/gutvol-d/2010-April/006659.html > http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/private/gutvol-d/2010-April/006660.html i said that ipads would outnumber sony/nooks/kindles on 4/21/2013, and michael (for some reason) bet the opposite. *** along the way, i also made another post full of predictions: > http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/private/gutvol-d/2010-April/006652.html kind of interesting to go back and look at how close i was... *** anyway, 2 years in to our 3 year wager, apple just announced its results for the quarter that concluded at the end of march. they sold 11.8 million ipads in the quarter, for a grand total of _67_million_ since the debut of the machine 2 years ago... pretty sure that dwarfs the other machines, even if you were to add in all the other e-readers and tablets, even combined. the ipad is an absolute juggernaut. apple's market cap -- which is now #1 -- has grown to nearly $600 million. (exxon, #2, hovers solidly around $400 million.) *** at any rate, i miss you, michael. -bowerbird

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Re: [gutvol-d] Creating a list of unknown words from a text document
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

james said: > I need to identify the words that I want in my index. i handled this in my "grapes" series in september and october. > http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/private/gutvol-d/2011-September/date.html > http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/private/gutvol-d/2011-October/date.html you'll find working python code, and pointers to dictionaries... it might be a mistake to eliminate all dictionary-words though, because you'll probably want to have a lot of them in your index. i'd first try eliminating common words (i point to a list of them), which account for a surprising percentage of the bulk of a book, then see how useful the list is at that point in time. my guess is that eliminating words from there will be a whole lot easier than trying to summon up the remaining good index words later on... > Using the ascii version of the file with gutspell is > not an answer. I need the accents in the word list. a first pass might be to extract all the words that have accents, because those are words which you'll definitely want to index... (even if they only occur once, consider putting 'em in the index, perhaps in their own special section, because that's useful info.) after that, you'll have only low-bit words left, so no need for utf8. -bowerbird

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