Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
thanks, that's good info. would you please take some e-texts -- you can choose any you want -- and convert them to x.m.l. and do the output conversion to .html and .pdf for us please?
Why don't you go ahead and publish the source code for the "Open Source" ebook reader program you announced on 14 Feb 2003 and which has been almost in beta stage ever since? Instead of burdening your homework onto other volunteers? If you want to see the output from those stylesheets you can run them yourself. Contrary to your vapourware reader Sebastians stylesheets are working and put up for download.
that way, we can subject these output-files to evaluation...
If you want to evaluate, go to http://www.gutenberg.org/tei/examples/ there are TEI source + HTML, PDF, TXT and PalmDoc generated versions for Alice in Wonderland and Life on the Mississippi ready to download. Of course, you'll also find the sources for the conversion tools there, under GPL. Of course, you'll also find there an online utility to convert from TEI to HTML, PDF, TXT and PalmDoc. Of course, you'll also find there a manual explaining how to mark up your text so they work best with the conversion utilities.
in the meantime, will you generate those samples please? (or feel free to point us to some that you've already done.)
In the meantime will you roll a tarball of your "rancid pudding"* reader sources and post them please? The only thing which hasn't made an inch of progress in 20 months is your reader program. But maybe that's the reason you want to keep everybody else too from doing useful stuff. * "rancid pudding": endearing epithet uttered by a beta-tester of this reader. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org