I have no objection to having both the Illuminated GIF file and the ASCII equivalent character. I see these as just fine, with no impediment to either reading or searching or quoting, other, of course, that any artifact of the GIF file usually not really much of a problem when I cut and paste. As for the MOBI, EPUB, etc., formats, as long as it's easy from the average reader's POV, it should be acceptable. Michael On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, James Adcock wrote:
Even more spectacular than the "illuminated letter" problem [which is bad enough][and which I would hope most transcribers would avoid nowadays by choosing NOT to include GIFs for illuminated letters and other trivial "printers art"] you also have texts when the transcriber has chosen to leave some text in GIF only mode, and/or other text in GIF mode AND OCR'ed mode, such that the MOBI and EPUB versions may have 0, 1 or 2 copies of a particular entire paragraph of text. And/or the HTML was written in a non-linear form in which case the MOBI and EPUB versions may have 0, 1, 2 or N copies of any particular passage in the text. And captions on images may be retained in the image, included in the HTML, and/or included in the alt-tag meaning that a particular user with a particular reading device may see or hear the image caption 0, 1, 2 or 3 times.
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