today, we look at "the genius" by theodore dreiser, another one of the p.g. books jim adcock digitized. this one is #31824, in case you're interested in it... *** for this book, we find that jim used these tags... 1. paragraph and break tags -- [p] and [br] on the first page (e.g., cover page), he used a "class" attribute, for the purpose of centering. some markup bureaucrats call this "tag abuse", arguing that frontmatter is "not a paragraph"... i'm a little more pragmatic than that. 2. horizontal rules -- [hr] of varying widths 3. headers -- [h1] for title, [h2] for chapters 4. sizing commands -- [big] and [small] more "tag abuse". i might not agree with the label of "tag abuse", but these sizing tags are largely unnecessary, in my humble opinion... and i doubt jim actually put them in manually. more than likely, they're cruft from some tool. 5. smallcaps -- [span class="smcap"] i believe smallcaps are unnecessary as well, as they are almost always _presentational_... (and when they are not, we need to use a substantial way to indicate their actuality.) 6. divisions -- [div][/div] these were probably cruft from calibre again. they don't really add anything to the markup. 7. blockquot divs -- [div class="blockquot"][/div] i'm not sure why jim used a div with a class of "blockquot", instead of just a [blockquote] tag. probably more calibre cruft, if my guess is right. 8. poetry -- [div class="poem"][div class="stanza"] using divs and spans to do poetry indents is extremely typical of the convoluted crap that markup bureaucrats want to impose on you; can work just fine to create an indent, but that would make things too easy for you! 9. anchor-names and links -- [a name] and [a href] and finally, we have anchor-names and links, to provide the table-of-contents as expected. *** so, in summary, even though there were a few new features in this book -- such as _poetry_ -- for the most part it was "the same old same old". as in the last book, however, we find that jim is starting to introduce a lot of markup "cruft" into his books, much of it probably due to his "tools". thank goodness we're gonna create better tools, ones that don't put a lot of noise in our markup. -bowerbird [p][/p] [br] [p class="pg1"][/p] [hr style="width: 5%;"] [hr style="width: 25%;"] [hr style="width: 45%;"] [hr style="width: 65%;"] [h1][/h1] [h1][a name="THE_GENIUS2" id="THE_GENIUS2"][/a]THE "GENIUS"[/h1] [big]"GENIUS"[/big] [span class="smcap"]1915.[/span] [span class="smcap"]By JOHN LANE COMPANY[/span] "[span class="smcap"]Ruby.[/span]" "[span class="smcap"]Marietta.[/span]" "[span class="smcap"]Norma Whitmore[/span]." "[span class="smcap"]DEAR EUGENE[/span] "[span class="smcap"]SUZANNE.[/span]" "[span class="smcap"]Eugene.[/span]" [div class="blockquot"]Flower Face[/div] [div class="poem"][div class="stanza"] [span class="i0"]"'Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss[/span] [span class="i0"]Though winning near the goalyet, do not grieve;[/span] [span class="i0"]She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,[/span] [span class="i0"]For ever wilt thou love and she be fair.'"[/span] [/div][/div] [h2 class="padit"]BY THEODORE DREISER[/h2] [h2][a name="BOOK_I" id="BOOK_I"][/a]BOOK I[/h2] [h2]YOUTH[/h2] [h2][a name="I_CHAPTER_I" id="I_CHAPTER_I"][/a]CHAPTER I[/h2] ... [h2][a name="I_CHAPTER_XXVIII" id="I_CHAPTER_XXVIII"][/a]CHAPTER XXVIII[/h2] [h2][a name="BOOK_II" id="BOOK_II"][/a]BOOK II[/h2] [h2]THE STRUGGLE[/h2] [h2][a name="II_CHAPTER_I" id="II_CHAPTER_I"][/a]CHAPTER I[/h2] ... [h2][a name="II_CHAPTER_XLIV" id="II_CHAPTER_XLIV"][/a]CHAPTER XLIV[/h2] [h2][a name="BOOK_III" id="BOOK_III"][/a]BOOK III[/h2] [h2]THE REVOLT[/h2] [h2][a name="III_CHAPTER_I" id="III_CHAPTER_I"][/a]CHAPTER I[/h2] ... [h2][a name="III_CHAPTER_XXIX" id="III_CHAPTER_XXIX"][/a]CHAPTER XXIX[/h2] [h2][a name="LENVOI" id="LENVOI"][/a]L'ENVOI[/h2] [a name="THE_GENIUS" id="THE_GENIUS"][/a]THE "GENIUS" [a name="BOOK_I" id="BOOK_I"][/a]BOOK I [a name="I_CHAPTER_I" id="I_CHAPTER_I"][/a]CHAPTER I ... [a name="I_CHAPTER_XXVIII" id="I_CHAPTER_XXVIII"][/a]CHAPTER XXVIII [a name="BOOK_II" id="BOOK_II"][/a]BOOK II [a name="II_CHAPTER_I" id="II_CHAPTER_I"][/a]CHAPTER I ... [a name="II_CHAPTER_XLIV" id="II_CHAPTER_XLIV"][/a]CHAPTER XLIV [a name="BOOK_III" id="BOOK_III"][/a]BOOK III [a name="III_CHAPTER_I" id="III_CHAPTER_I"][/a]CHAPTER I ... [a name="III_CHAPTER_XXIX" id="III_CHAPTER_XXIX"][/a]CHAPTER XXIX [a name="LENVOI" id="LENVOI"][/a]L'ENVOI [a href="#BOOK_I"][b]BOOK I[/b][/a] [a href="#I_CHAPTER_I"]CHAPTER I[/a] ... [a href="#I_CHAPTER_XXVIII"]CHAPTER XXVIII[/a] [a href="#BOOK_II"][b]BOOK II[/b][/a] [a href="#II_CHAPTER_I"]CHAPTER I[/a] ... [a href="#II_CHAPTER_XLIV"]CHAPTER XLIV[/a] [a href="#BOOK_III"][b]BOOK III[/b][/a [a href="#III_CHAPTER_I"]CHAPTER I[/a] ... [a href="#III_CHAPTER_XXIX"]CHAPTER XXIX[/a] [a href="#LENVOI"]L'ENVOI[/a]