Well, be careful you are not laboring under misunderstandings. The output of DP (that is to say, what comes out of round F2) is _not_ a finished text. Yes, there is some propriatory markup used at DP. However calling it a "format" is going too far. I would call it "suggestive markup". That is, its purpose is to record some information about layout and format for the post-processor to use when they produce html and/or text files. The output of the rounds at DP usually contains plenty of ambiguities (such as the propriatoy <tb>, which you may want to ignore or render in different ways depending on the text), proofer's notes (such as "is this a typo?"), and other inconsistancies. It is the job of the post-processor to take all this, ask for help if needed with any of the issues with the particular text, and produce the final texts which are submitted for posting. --Andrew On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Joey Smith wrote:
I see. I was told the output of DP was text and the html generated from it.
Now I gather DP uses some sort of proprietary internal markup and can produce HTML without having to produce TXT? Am I right?
I'm also very interested in the answer to this question - and assuming the answer is "Yes, DP has an internal format that is used before the final .txt is rendered to PG", my follow-up question becomes "How can I get access to the ebooks in this 'internal markup' format?" I'm hoping dearly that the answer isn't "We throw it away when we're done..."