On Sep 27, 2012, at 6:32 AM, Jon Hurst <jon.a@hursts.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
Interesting. I was thinking it would be better to just do P1 and P2 on the basis that the rounds were so imbalanced and this would help. What you are indicating is that there is a higher chance of successfully getting Louise on side if we were to do a full workflow. This would, of course, work fine. The only abnormality would be we would pull off P3 output, do the diff against the extant text (giving us actually an even cleaner RTT), then push the RTT back in as F1 input. You also indicate that what the snapshot that _you_ would actually like is essentially F2, which again points to a full workflow. Is this a reasonable interpretation?
I have not heard of an external P3.5 round and then loading images back in. The reload would have to be done by the squirrels. Another problem will be to do the diff, you'll have to join the pages and then put them back as individual files, properly (by DP standards) split again. A bigger issue is that the process would involve formatting that--correct me if I'm wrong--would not be used to post-process the book. The RTT is what is going to PG and whever wants to would start from that. There would be no PP at DP on the text. Don has reported that historically this was not allowed. Any part of the workflow meant all of the workflow. I don't think this will change at DP. You could ask, but I expect you will continue to get no answer or a "no-changes" answer, which isn't the one you want. Bowerbird put it succinctly and early: this is not going to happen because of DP and PG realities. We are still discussing it but we're getting to the same conclusion. If DP involvement is required, then seems to me that's enough to pull the plug on the original proposal. It's your brainchild, though, so if you do see a reason I should still hold out hope, let me know. If you want to do this I think you need new DP-like people that will work to make a RTT-compliant text and WW-like people outside of PG that will verify that the RTT has captured all that is needed such that it can be called a master version. Then you need PP-like people, again outside of DP, that will generate the various output formats and a PG-like place that is not PG to host the RTT and the end-user downloadble versions. --Roger