I think the long term view, at least from the Distributed Proofreader's supply chain, is to provide a TEI-Lite document for each text, and from it programmatically create HTML, plain text, PDF, etc on the fly. I'm not sure when this will happen, but I expect that some of the precursor activities at DP will take place this year. I don't know if DP will try to replace all previous versions of texts with TEI-Lite documents, but my guess is that once a system is in place, there will be volunteers that will go back and rework the texts, just as we have volunteers today providing revised editions of earlier texts with HTML and text versions that follow the current formatting guidelines. As always, volunteer in the ways you see fit, but I suspect many here (at least us DPers) would argue that working on new texts hitherto unavailable to PG is probably a better use of your time than providing multiple reformatted versions of existing works. Bruce http://www.pgdp.net/vision/ For Charlz' vision http://www.tei-c.org/Lite/ For information on TEI-Lite http://www.pdgp.net For volunteering at Distributed Proofreaders Ron Aitchison writes:
Understand the issue of editing. My proposal would be to supply an editable file in OpenOffice or MS doc format (BTW if you are not using the Open Source OpenOffice suite I recommend you check it out - the features are great, at least as feature rich as MS word, plus - one button PDF creation, output as doc, text or native XML format and a great price = $0! http://www.openoffice.org ). I propose to take nothing away you will have edit control over the file. This also opens up another question over what base document formats you have standardized for editability and portability e.g. OASIS etc.. Maybe that is a topic another list. Finally I note you have PDF formats available for some other books.