jim said:
Which is a "good" submission format for submitting a transcription of Shakespeare to be read on a cellphone, PG txt format, or HTML? Answer: Neither file format works worth a dang for specifying Shakespeare to be read on cellphones. Yet both file formats contain the lists of the words.
again, jim, you've come up with the wrong answer... as i've said, repeatedly, the iphone app "eucalyptus" does a great job of rendering the p.g. e-texts in a way that makes them quite beautiful, according to reviewers, and i agree, for the most part. (it ends up eucalyptus is kind of flawed as an e-book program when it comes to some capabilities that i consider vital, such as _search_. but in terms of rendering the pages, it does that nicely.) format wonks think the format needs to describe beauty... it's far better, however, for a viewer-application to elicit it. because in the end, everything really depends on the viewer.
Here's a brief excerpt from Dove: "'Go?'" he wondered. "Go when, go where?"
well, that's on page 227 of this version in google.
"And proceed to my business under your eyes?" "Oh dear no -- we shall go." "'Go?'" he wondered. "Go when, go where?" " In a day or two -- straight home. Aunt Maud wishes it now."
http://books.google.com/books?id=B9AOAAAAIAAJ&client=safari&pg=PA227& ci=89%2C537%2C776%2C177&source=bookclip" http://books.google.com/books?id=B9AOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA227&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en& sig=ACfU3U0L1tXMRlU83MbayfHNmmTl27CrXw&ci=89%2C537%2C776%2C177&edge=0"/ but i don't see anything special about that, anything that would be missed or lost in the plain-text version.
And another one: She particularly likes you.
ok, that's on page 18. the "you" is italicized, so you should have put underscores around it, so the viewer knows it's emphasized. it's also embedded in dialog, so the way you have pulled it out -- as if it was a paragraph by itself -- is rather misleading here. again, if you purposely disfigure the plain-text version, then yes, it will be inferior. your solution is to stop disfiguring it... -bowerbird