It really doesn't matter what DP targets as long as it's capable of identifying, completely and unambiguously, the requisite syntactic elements. But we have no agreed list, not even an ad hoc functional one, of what those are. Instead our focus is on subjective elegance of appearance rather than on objective clarity and completeness. "Good work" has come to be associated with "looks pretty and makes the PPer feel good," plus the ability to pass two sets of incompletely documented and sometimes inconsistent automated tests - the postprocessor tools and the whitewashers' tools - neither of which were intended to consider syntactic rigor and accuracy. Interestingly, we seem to have instinctively inferred the need of this. the HTML texts often include some basic form of it (or more accurately an ad hoc collection of basic forms) in the CSS stylesheets. It seems to me that we need the "what" before we worry about the "how". Don On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Carlo Traverso <traverso@posso.dm.unipi.it>wrote:
"Marcello" == Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> writes:
Marcello> Karen Lofstrom wrote:
But no, you have to join the grouch group here at PG and repeatedly attack the organization that is providing the overwhelming majority of the texts submitted to PG.
Marcello> Quantity, yes ... Let's talk *quality* instead.
Marcello> The problem is not that some PPers are incompetent, the Marcello> problem is that the whole DP output is technically Marcello> obsolete:
Marcello> DP is producing `HTML Facsimiles for the Desktop´ while Marcello> it should be producing eBooks.
Marcello> Which do you think is more useful? A book you can only Marcello> read at home on your dektop or a book you can read Marcello> everywhere on your phone?
Is PG ready to accept Epub as submission format? (i.e. one submits a valid epub from which the other formats are derived)? If so, one can target Epub, otherwise at best one is forced to submit HTML or txt that converts not-too-badly with current PG tools, and this migh be extremely challenging.
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