don said:
What do you imagine I was surprised by?
Not that PG tries to transform HTML into something that is useful in epub and mobi; rather that epubmaker was responsible for this
seriously? i thought you would profess a type of temporary amnesia, like forgetting your wife's name, or how to tie your shoes, and that -- _of_course_ -- you have known this all along, that epubmaker was used to... well, to make the .epubs... but you're really telling us that you have _not_ known? wow. i repeat my question: where have you been, don? did you really think everyone would be spending so much time and energy talking about epubmaker flaws if it was _only_ being used on the restructured-text submissions? (which, so y'all know, are dwindling off even as we speak.) for the record, in case anyone else is as confused as don, here are quotes from the d.p. forum. notice the aplomb with which carlo (who is known over there as garweyne) informs don of what he apparently has missed all along:
don said:
In any case, I think we've been discussing HTML markup, not ReST markup (see the thread title). Or are they somehow are they related?
carlo replied:
epubmaker is used by PG to convert HTML to epub and mobi, not only to handle RST.
don replied:
Really?
Remarkable. No wonder the results are so questionable. ...
I'm amazed.
so there you have it, folks. and thus i too am amazed. evidently, it's entirely possible to "contribute" to threads here without having the slightest idea about the basic information. -bowerbird