Bowerbird, I am working on and will continue to work on the file here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8919415/AStudyOfTheBhagavataPurana.txt I've put in much too much work on it to just abandon it, and since it has been de-hyphened, rewrapped and de-paged there is no good way to get my work into your system. However, what I *could* do is do my book from a certain point onwards in your system. Previous to that point would remain uncorrected in your system but would be corrected in my file. I would use your system to create a complete ZML marked up file, then I would overlay the tail end of that file on my original file, add ZML markup where needed on my original, then run the result through your converters. I would guess this is not the work flow you had in mind. I have done previous books with the page-at-a-time method and if I had known how to extract individual pages from DJVUs I would have used it for this one too. There is another possibility, which would be to do a different book. PG currently has the Bhagavad Gita only in German: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33186 There are a couple of good possibilities for a public domain English translation: http://www.archive.org/details/srimadbhagavadg00swamgoog http://www.archive.org/details/bhagavadgitason00johngoog This is a MUCH shorter book that the Bhagavata Purana, but it should demonstrate the value of your approach. I favor the first link over the second one. It seems to be more authentic. I'm sure the finished product would get a lot of downloads. If you like I can set aside my current project when your system is ready, and work on the Gita instead. There should be no problem getting copyright clearances on either one of these. James Simmons On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:33 PM, <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:
james said:
Carlo, I defined a compose key on my Linux box last night and it works great. I can finish the book twice as fast now.
carlo is handing out the holiday gifts, isn't he? :+)
thanks again, carlo, for the djvu-text-extraction info...
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james, i just wanna make sure we're on the same page. (see how i did that?) ;+)
i'm cleaning the text now, and i will hand it over to you sometime next week. that's my understanding, anyway. is it your understanding as well?
i want to be positively _certain_ that we do _not_ have the situation where we're working on separate tracks, because merging 2 sets of corrections is a nightmare.
good version control is an absolute requirement.
-bowerbird
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