Hi, I find your lamenting counter productive. Am 24.01.2012 um 20:30 schrieb Lee Passey:
On 1/24/2012 3:14 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
So the FAQs and HowTos must be updated to mirror the commonly used policies and practices, and be more consistent.
That would be desirable and advisable, but apparently it will not happen as no one is willing to do it (I doubt a consensus could even be reached as to the answers published in such a document). The next best thing would be a disclaimer at the beginning saying that the information contained therein may or may not be the policy of Project Gutenberg, and that questions should be addressed directly to Mr. Haines. As a last resort, the FAQ should simply be withdrawn. Though I just skimmed the FAQs and HowTos they are not written that badly. Yet, they were written by knowledgable persons about the process, but they forgot to cross read and forgot that they should be for those that are not knowledgable and want to be informed what PG requires and expects. I actually should not be hard to clean up.
I have one question though. What if one has went through the work of producing a ePub, mobi, HTML and text files that conform to PG requirements, can they be submitted to PG?
According to Mr. Haines, they may not. ePub and .mobi may not be submitted under any circumstance, and HTML may only be submitted if it is accompanied by an associated .txt file that meets his requirements.
I have followed this thread and am aware of what has been written. I believe Marcello and Al should be the ones to respond to this question.
The reason I ask is that, as can be seen for the posts on this list production is moving more to the production directly of mobi and epub formats. These formats more or less contain HTML already. If they follow the guidelines for good ebooks. The HTML should fit PG requirments for HTML.
PG has no requirements for HTML, other than that it be HTML.
This is not true. read the HowTo on HTML.
Perhaps it is more accurate to say that PG has no /published/ requirements for HTML. I've little doubt that if you were to submit an HTML document it would be rejected for some reason. I think it would be an interesting project to collect these rejection slips, from which a de facto requirements list could be constructed.
With the above said all PG now needs is a conversion tool to create a plain text version.
Mr. Perathoner is unwilling to consider such a tool. If you would like, you are welcome to use my rather dated tool. Be aware that I think the text file requirement is, as Mr. Adcock pointed out, a requirement to preserve the status quo because it /is/ the status quo, and therefore I am unlikely to put any effort into maintaining the tool. Impoverished text is dead, let the rich text formats flower!
regards Keith.