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-----Original Message----- From: gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of Marcello Perathoner Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 2:27 PM To: gbnewby@pglaf.org; Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Goals and scope (Re: Version control systems)
On 01/31/2012 10:36 PM, Greg Newby wrote:
Having more than one master format per book does not make sense. Decide which format is best for that book and stick to it. Every typo should have exactly one location that needs fixing.
In principal I agree. In practice, we often have 2 (HTML + text). I don't think it's is very burdensome to edit 2 files rather than 1.
Based on my experience with the Errata system, this depends on the number of errors being reported. Correcting a handful of errors in 2 or 3 files (2 text, 1 HTML) is one thing, but a report of hundreds of errors is something else. As an extreme example, I've got an errata report on my hands that's 3400 lines long, that I haven't had the courage to plow through yet. The reporter lists something wrong on almost every one of the book's nearly 400 pages. On top of that, he'd like an HTML version created with the footnotes cross-linked and from what I can tell, the page numbers inserted because there are internal references to them. The reported-on text is one volume of a series, so fixing/reposting it will take it out of sync with the rest. Probably simpler to figure out the source edition and run the whole series through DP, to replace the current files. (Question: where's an Errata Team when you want one? Answer: as happened a year or so ago, they find out what they're up against, and vanish. <g>) Al
The way forward should be to make it simpler on the WWers than
before.
If we'd have multiple masters per book, a mantainer would need to learn all master formats, and in the end we'd probably lose sync between them.
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