Now I'm not going to get in the middle of this on going feud, but what readers do we have for each format? The TEI formats are listed there but what do you use to read them so you do not see all the markup encoding. Firefox shows the markup when you open the file. Notepad shows the markup (to be expected). MS Word just crashes upon opening because it says that there are problems with the contents. Going to the gutenberg help page and looking under formats listed there is no information on it (this should have been the first thing done before placing a new format on the site). I understand that behind the scenes there are tools to get these things handled, but why put them on the public site if the tools are not available and a description is not available on how to use them. -----Original Message----- From: gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of Marcello Perathoner Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:56 AM To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion Cc: Bowerbird@aol.com Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] another dose of reality Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
add to the equation now that i'm showing, with real example-books, that z.m.l. can convert to multiple formats quite easily, on the user's desktop, via button-clicks,
You forgot to say that the "user's desktop" has to be the computer of your alleged girlfriend, a 1991 Mac running System 7.5. Because on everybody else's desktop it just prints the splash screen and crashes.
how long does t.e.i./x.m.l./whatever remain on the table as "the official plan" before it's required to show some action and results?
There is no official plan. If you can contribute a working technology and convince the people at DP to adopt it, you win. If not, you lose. That's that. But wait! All you did in the last three years was to steal the time and to insult everybody who was trying to do some real work. You'll have a hard time getting people to adopt your gadgets because everybody hates you. And that's a dose of reality for you. What about starting a book distribution site yourself? Servers are cheap. A genius like you will convert the PG library into all kinds of formats in no time at all. Go ahead insted of wasting your precious time with blockheads like us! -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d