aaron said:
I didn't realize that there was such a backlog. Good luck with that, especially with regards to automating the process.
um, my post in support of the automatic text-to-html converters didn't mean to suggest there is a special push on to perfect them... i know of no such focused effort. indeed, one can get one's head bitten off in the d.p. forums for suggesting improvement is needed, or even that a minimal standard of usefulness should be created. the modus operandi seems to be that every person is free to wander off and create their own idiosyncratic .html version, "as long as it validates." in my humble opinion, that's a recipe for a nonstandardized library -- the same one that has given us 14,000 inconsistent ascii texts -- and a nonstandardized library is shorthand for a less-useful library. that reminds me, david moynihan recently offered his extensive collection of thousands of .html versions to project gutenberg. the only substantial reaction i saw was "your files don't validate". what was the response to that kind offer? was it turned down? -bowerbird