Shudder, Shudder, Shiudder! I have finally come to the opinion, that all have NO IDEA what they are doing! You do not need the actual intent of the orginal publisher. You only need to emulate the outer visual representation. How many of the readers of poetry and read it out loud to an audience. Do most really recognize a pentameter etc. !! As a PROGRAMMER I realize there is a outer representation and inner structure. More often that most the inner structure has little to do with the outer representation. But, I can manipulate and calculate what is desired. In other words forget about intend when encoding the text, it is only important that the READER can congrue the themselves. Afterall, a printed book is a piece of paper with pictures on it! Letters and words are pictures you know !! regards Keith. Am 28.02.2011 um 00:56 schrieb Jim Adcock:
Very witty. It's the damn authors. Someone should have tried harder to keep e.g. Shakespeare on the tracks.
FWIW most of us volunteering to help create PG books are not "authors". What we are is some sort of transcriber who is trying on some level to understand the intent of the original author/publisher, so that we can transcribe to a "modern" format while respecting the intent of the original author/publisher -- where it is *important* to respect the intent of the original author/publisher, and equally importantly so that we can *ignore* details of the original paper layout where those details of the original layout were *not* important to the intent of the original author/publisher. Of course, beyond title, chapter title, and paragraph, there's probably never going to be 100% agreement between two transcribers about what the "original intent" *was* of the original author/publisher.
The real problem lies when one scratches one's head trying to figure out the "original intent" of the author/publisher. In that case one ends up more-or-less transcribing the paper page literally -- because what else can one do? -- and modern display devices seldom are very friendly when it comes to displaying a page transcribed "literally."
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