On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Roger Frank <rfrank@rfrank.net> wrote:

On Oct 12, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:

> roger frank is doing a book with (ppqt), so maybe he
> will be kind enough to post his review of it here.

Tallforasmurf's ppqt program is very similar to guiguts with a several improvements:

1. it is written in Python, which to many is more maintainable than Perl
2. it has an active maintainer (thundergnat seems to have abandoned guiguts)
3. it handles UTF-8 well
4. you can add and save custom REs you use in post-processing
5. ppqt is very easy to install
6. it has a full-time png display, unlike guiguts

I am using it for a solo book, right from the scans/text files. It's a good match for that. However, normally I don't use guiguts for books that have come through DP, so I'm probably not going to use ppqt for DP books, either.

In using it, my first impression was that it appears to be surprisingly complete and clearly represents a lot of work over the year or so the author has been using it for his own books, refining it as needed. Documentation is good to excellent. If you use guiguts, definitely install and try ppqt. It's self-contained, low risk, easily uninstalled if it's not for you. Windows Mac or Linux.

--Roger

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