The RST files can be opened with any UTF-8
capable editor--SCUnipad, Windows Notepad, MS Word, etc. (I can't
speak to Mac software.) If you click on the reStructuredText link, you
should get a prompt to open or save the file. You may have to set up
an association of the .rst extension with the editor of your
choice.
They're meant only
as a master file from which other formats are generated--plain text,
HTML, epub, etc, etc. They are not an
end-user ebook format.
BTW--it's probably more accurate to say that PG
doesn't actually _use_ formats. Ebook producers (DP, independents)
_use_ formats--PG decides which ones it will accept for posting.
That's how I see it, anyway--dissenters can argue among themselves.
<g>
Al
I read the instructions
how to make rst, and downloaded the .rst books bowerbird listed. My
Calibre won't convert them, my browser won't open them. What are
they supposed to work with?
i don't get over to the d.p.
forums very often these days,
so i didn't realize they started
rolling out their notice on
the shift to restructured-text last
saturday, december 11th.
i also didn't know this initiative was
so far along, in that
two r.s.t. e-books are already mounted
(december 16th):
> http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34654
>
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34605
here's
my r.s.t. summary: the good, the bad, and the
ugly.
***
_restructured-text_at_project_gutenberg_
_the_good_
project
gutenberg is officially using a light-markup
format!
_the_bad_
the implementation uptake at d.p.
will likely be _very_slow_...
_the_ugly_
this change
proves that it is now marcello making p.g.
policy.
***
i'll elaborate on this summary in the coming
days...
in the meantime... as you can imagine, over the
many years,
i have been an advocate of light-markup all over
cyberspace,
so now i can go out and tell the world that project
gutenberg
has finally endorsed my position and is using
light-markup!
of course, this leaves considerable egg on the
faces of people
like walter, who -- just last december 26th -- posted
that i was
a "hopeless fool" and that my proposals for light-markup
were
"fundamentally impossible". looks like you were wrong,
walter.
way wrong. way way wrong. even marcello has given
it all up.
-bowerbird
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