"Keith" == Keith J Schultz <schultzk@uni-trier.de> writes:
Keith> Hi Don, Keith> I may have expressed myself correctly. Keith> There a two kind of users. 1) the nerds here on the list Keith> with their pet technologies. Keith> 2) the average joe that wants to volunteer. Keith> What 2 needs is a WSYSIG interface to do correction and not Keith> worry about what format a file is in and how the system Keith> stores them. Keith> all he needs wants is a tool to get XYZ, edit it, send it Keith> back. Several years ago a student of mine prepared a prototype in which an user, pasting a fragment of text with a correction retrieved the text(s) with a (partially) matching phrases, and corresponding images if available, automatically have a correction report prepared, and sent upon confirmation. Then an administrative interface to accepr/reject the patch and apply to the collection. This only for the txt version. The prototype more or less worked with a few books, but of course it was just a proof of concept. Scaling to a big collection would be non trivial. A planned extension would then transport the corrections to HTML (requiring sometimes manual handling, like merging independent corrections in a VC system). I no longer have the implementation, but I remember the algorithms used. The GUI was borrowed by the DP proofing interface. Carlo