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.

Carlo
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