On 2/4/2012 4:41 PM, Karen Lofstrom wrote:
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 1:11 PM, don kretz<dakretz@gmail.com> wrote:
Are there any sites where I can pull down books in TEI format?
Yes but ... the point of using TEI for a few complicated books would be that the TEI could then be fed through a converter to produce usable texts in azw, epub, txt, and other formats. RST as well would be processed to produce end-user results.
That's the point of a master format ... like using XML to store data, which can then be repurposed in various forms.
What's so hard to understand about that?
If you're trying to select a format to use, you want to pick one that has some weight behind it. You want one that has been vetted by experts; you want one that is mature enough that there is some assurance that it has the coverage you need; you want one that has software tools already developed to manipulate and convert it. And if you're trying to develop some of those tools on your own, you want to see how /other/ people have used the format. All of these are good reasons to examine other projects. Mr. Kretz is a developer and tool builder, he's not just a consumer.