On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:00:52PM -0500, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
second, for greg. people over at distributed proofreaders have reported that the f.a.q. here at project gutenberg do not state that styled text (specifically, italics and bold) be marked with underbars and asterisks in the text files. the understanding i have from you is that this has become the official policy of project gutenberg. if that's not the case, would you please inform people here? and if it _is_ the case, when you next update the f.a.q., could you include this policy? thank you.
Jim maintains the FAQ, and DP has their own style guides that sometimes vary for different texts. So, I'm not really the right guy to ask. I don't think there was agreement on how to handle bold & italics, but I do think everyone I heard from agreed it should be indicated somehow in plain text. So, I don't think there is an official policy on handling bold & italics in plain text files. But if DP has an official policy I'm unaware of, then it should probably be reflected in the FAQ as a recommendation. Sorry I don't know the current state on this, but perhaps Jim or some of the DP project managers can contribute the latest thinking. -- Greg