For the foreseeable future the only reasonable way to make a dent in the quality of current projects is to repair what's already there with software. I know it's possible to infer a lot of the intended display elements from the patterns applied by the PP software, mainly guiguts. Fixed-dimension images can be converted to %s. Or removed sizes entirely and let them be constrained by container elements that are already there. The infamous page markup is especially possible to refactor into something useful, hidden, and/or removed.

I'll contribute the methods I've developed for EB (which is only a subset). Others should be discoverable with a reasonable amount of effort.

It will take some work and cooperation. The critical question still remains: will PG allow existing projects to be altered this way? Under what condtions? With what verification requirements? 

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Lee Passey <lee@novomail.net> wrote:
On 2/2/2012 7:14 PM, Jim Adcock wrote:

I've put some more recent examples of the "tweak the HTML" approach as
opposed to "rewrite everything in another language" up at:

http://freekindlebooks.org/KF8

One of the things that is most frustrating about trying to converse with BowerBird is that he absolutely refuses to give a straight answer to a straight question; instead he just gives a whole bunch of examples and says, "See how great I am! No figure out how I did it!"

On that note, I'm much less interested in seeing what happens when you "tweak the HTML," than in getting a straight answer explaining exactly what you did to each file to get the output you are so proud of.


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