"Marcello" == Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> writes:
Marcello> On 02/04/2012 06:51 AM, Al Haines wrote: >> And then what happens to their text/HTML files? Do they get >> dumped? I can think of at least four independents (one of whom >> is me) that would strongly resent, even flatly reject, that >> being done to their files. Marcello> Why would you feel so? Lots of *authors* are happy with Marcello> the house style of their publishing houses. I can't Marcello> understand why a simple digitizer should fell so strong. Marcello> Why would you prefer your own formatting style over a PG Marcello> house style? Think of the advantages of having a huge Marcello> corpus formatted in the same style. Or a huge corpus Marcello> that can be converted into any house style at the push Marcello> of a button. Authors that don't like a publisher's house style change publisher, if they have the choice. If a publisher forces an house style that users and authors don't like, they switch to other publishers. And apparently it is what is happening to PG. Carlo