Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
and indeed, that's my essence: use the most simple system possible.
Use the most simple tool that does the job, but don't use a simpler one. If you had done any research on ebooks before self-proclaiming yourself demi-god, you my have noticed that your toy markup language is woefully underpowered. You don't even handle the very first page of Sherlock Holmes. Mark this up in ZML. Note that "Being a reprint" is a subtitle to "Part I" and not a paragraf. Same goes for "Mr. Sherlock Holmes". Note also that: "John H. Watson" is emphasized, although it's the only part of the title that's not italic. --- PART I. _Being a reprint from the reminiscences of_ JOHN H. WATSON, M.D., _late of the Army Medical Department._ CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES. IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. ... ---
but i note once again, for the record, that no one has yet given me a list of "hard e-texts" that they think might give my z.m.l. a run for its money on difficulty. so we really don't have an answer to that yet, do we?
How about doing your homework yourself? The world at large was not created to do your bidding. Go, find a slew of difficult texts, mark them up, fix your program and show us what you can do. But, please, stop whining about us not doing your work.
of course, it will take a new kind of software program to "fix" the transcription errors that will occur using this input method, but maybe that's already a part of these systems, i don't know...
Again, researching your stuff before starting a colossal handwave is out of the question. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org