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.

***


_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.

***

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.

-bowerbird
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