On Feb 3, 2012, Al Haines <ajhaines@shaw.ca> wrote:
Text+(X)HTML submissions are not going to go away. You can't expect
an independent producer, perhaps with limited text/HTML
expertise/experience, to start submitting in RST.
Al
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> [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of Karen
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> Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Goals and scope
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>
> I appreciate the elegance and economy of having one master format,
but
> it does seem that there would be a great deal of benefit to having
> three or four.
>
> Before the book is put though the DP process, or approved for an
> independent preparer, how about sorting it into one of several
> categories:
>
> RST -- uncomplicated fiction and non-fiction. Everyone here seems to
> agree that RST works for most texts.
>
> LaTeX - math books. This is standard for math.
>
> TEI -- complicated fiction and non-fiction
>
> Perhaps XHTML if someone can argue convincingly that it's necessary
> too. But I do fear that HTML tempts people into hand-tweaking for
the
> nicest appearance on a particular ereader.
>
> Different workflows for each format. A few post-processors and
> whitewashers could specialize in the more esoteric formats, and
> everyone else could work in RST. This seems more practical than
> demanding that everything be stored in a format that few know how to
> prepare OR that difficult texts be mutilated to remove everything
that
> RST can't handle.
>
> The effort to define the one true master format seems like the
effort
> to define the one true DTD. If the one true DTD handles everything,
> it's too unwieldy to use. Better to have different DTDs (or schemas)
> for different tasks.
>
> You'd have to have a different suite of tools for each format, for
> converting it into the various end-user formats, but that would be
> easier, in the long run, than forcing everything into the one true
> format.
>
> --
> Karen Lofstrom
> only a gamma geek, but practical
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