I read the instructions how to make rst, and downloaded the .rst books bowerbird listed. My Calibre won't convert them, my browser won't open them. What are they supposed to work with? Linda M. Everhart codmolly@embarqmail.com On Dec 18, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
i don't get over to the d.p. forums very often these days, so i didn't realize they started rolling out their notice on the shift to restructured-text last saturday, december 11th.
i also didn't know this initiative was so far along, in that two r.s.t. e-books are already mounted (december 16th):
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34654 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34605
here's my r.s.t. summary: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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_restructured-text_at_project_gutenberg_
_the_good_
project gutenberg is officially using a light-markup format!
_the_bad_
the implementation uptake at d.p. will likely be _very_slow_...
_the_ugly_
this change proves that it is now marcello making p.g. policy.
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i'll elaborate on this summary in the coming days...
in the meantime... as you can imagine, over the many years, i have been an advocate of light-markup all over cyberspace, so now i can go out and tell the world that project gutenberg has finally endorsed my position and is using light-markup!
of course, this leaves considerable egg on the faces of people like walter, who -- just last december 26th -- posted that i was a "hopeless fool" and that my proposals for light-markup were "fundamentally impossible". looks like you were wrong, walter. way wrong. way way wrong. even marcello has given it all up.
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