Carlo Traverso 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.
That is not the problem. You can botch ePub as easily as you can HTML. (In fact ePub is only HTML + some metadata) You should produce HTML that is *semantically* correct and degrades gracefully. Ie. if you remove all CSS it should still make sense. Most prominent offenders are non-semantic headers, preformatted text, positioning, floating and ornaments. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org