On 02/27/2011 09:38 PM, David Starner wrote:
No more evidence needed!
The top selling item of the top bookseller on the planet is a portable book reading device. I'm sure all those people just buy a costly dedicated device to go and read books on desktop PCs they already owned. But if you still don't get it, then continue doing what you've always done. Its not *my* work that will gather dust and be forgotten in a format nobody wants.
Care to amplify on that bit about TEI? I don't quite understand how actually writing a TEI converter that works for PG has trashed the chances?
But see, it didn't work. It produced title pages that were distinctly non-standard, and distinctly ugly. And when people complained, you, as you usually do, claimed that it was perfect and refused to change anything.
I tell you now, as I told you then, and you won't listen now, as you didn't listen then, that if your aesthetic preferences are at variance with the TEI defaults, you are at liberty to use CSS styling all the way until it the output suits you. Fact is: You can style TEI titlepages as minutely as you want. Anybody who cares to take look here can see that: http://www.gnutenberg.de/pgtei/0.5/examples/candide/4650-pdf.pdf But, as usual, once David has has formed his (erroneous) opinion, he will continue spreading his misinformation completely unbothered by contradicting fact.
Even if you were right, you were still wrong; you let such issues derail TEI, instead of working with people to achieve something they would be willing to use, even if it isn't an exact fit to your tastes.
If I'm right, then I'm right. Period. What devious logic do they use on the planet you come from? I'm not working with you because you are not interested in achieving something, but only in destroying something that is not of your own invention.
And again, when I go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sawyer and click on the link at the bottom, it comes up to http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74 ... in German. Is this another it works right for Marcello?
Yes. If you configure your browser so that none of the languages you accept is available, it will send a random language. (I think it chooses in alphabetical order, which happens to be: de, en, es, fr, it.) If you prefer English over a random language then why don't you configure your browser so? You are like that woman at DP that complained that the site sent her a date in Inuktitut. Even though she had actually configured Inuktitut as her preferred language! -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org