On 1/28/2012 11:55 AM, Jim Adcock wrote:
Lee>...and feel entitled to back out subsequent improvements. I just don't know how it could be done.
Without prejudice, please note that this is already what Marcello's rewriting tools already do. DP puts in "precious" improvements over the txt70, such as page numbers, which the people who put in those page numbers are very vested in, because trust me it adds a ton of work, at least if you want to get the page numbers "right", and then Marcello's code throws away the page numbers -- at least on mobi devices where the typical DP page numbering scheme really really doesn't work.
Please understand that what I am talking about is Mr. Hutchinson's proposal to re-work the current PG corpus into a single master format, mirroring, not replacing, the current PG work flow. The fact is I do not give a fig about what you call txt70 and I call Impoverished Text Format. I don't suppose there are more than about 6 people in the entire world who care about ITF, and three of them are PG white washers. So the fact that the WWs do unspeakable things to files to meet their own prejudices, and that Mr. Perathoner's attempts to restore these files to their former glory is flawed, is completely irrelevant to me. I understand that you have your own axe to grind against the current situation at Project Gutenberg. But I am not addressing this current state, so don't think for a moment that you and I are speaking about the same thing.