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...

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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.

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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]