On 10/11/2011 02:57 PM, Walter van Holst wrote:
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:39:55 +0200, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
1. Use one master format for every book. (There will be a small set of master formats to choose from.)
What would you suggest as at least part of that set?
TEI? reStructuredText?
Those are my pet formats but you could use other formats as well. They have to be free and documented and have a toolchain that can build at least HTML and plain text (more is better).
or Z.M.L.? ;-)
Do you mean this one? http://www.liminalzone.org/ZML or do you mean the ZML.com scam site?
7. Make it really distributed in order to facilitate the various copyright regimes. Right now the DP versions for Canada and Europe are hopelessly out of sync software-wise with the main DP site.
You mean DP-US is hopelessly behind the other ones because they can't do unicode.
The latter also gets me back to scanning: I am not aware of repositories comparable to IA in 50+ and 70+ countries. I can see good reasons not to take that bit on as well, however.
Many European governments have started scanning. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org