-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 11:33 AM 9/29/2005, you wrote:
if it's gonna be a practice to "deprecate" idiosyncratic .html versions that are being created by individuals over at distributed proofreaders, replacing them with versions that have been converted by machine, someone should start informing people not to make the original effort.
You are assuming that all of the typographic information from the html files will be thrown out. I dare say you are mistaken.
when i brought up this very point a little while back, on the d.p. forums, juliet made a sharp public rebuke telling me not to "discourage" people.
And in true Bowerbird fashion, you never considered for a moment that she might have a point.
personally, i think _all_ the time people have spent over there making hand-tooled .html versions has been a big waste of energy; it would've been far smarter to perfect a text-to-html conversion routine instead...
What you think is moot, as has previously been demonstrated.
i see other instances, too, where distributed proofreaders appears to prefer to waste the time of volunteers to "keep 'em busy and happy", rather than ensuring that the workflow is as efficient as it could be...
Of course, if we left it to you, DP would still be in beta and the only way you could participate would be to join a yahoogroup.
one more thing: are we assured that the conversion routine is solid?
Well, whether it is or isn't, at least we've got the source code, so we can fix it. Others have addressed the rest, so I won't. Aaron Cannon - -- E-mail: cannona@fireantproductions.com Skype: cannona MSN Messenger: cannona@hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail address.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 Comment: Key available from all major key servers. iD8DBQFDPGtvI7J99hVZuJcRAsDfAJ9hbb7FTkhRHF/SmDjVDLgxXghXQACg8UK9 30SUJp0Pr3ZxZ5XUjcwDUl8= =kbiA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----