On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
You are all right in saying that we have to please the volunteers, but you forget a much more important thing:
We have to please the readers.
Actually, we don't. Without volunteers, Project Gutenberg will disappear; as long as it has volunteers, Project Gutenberg will be around. That is the dirty secret of non-profits; they have more motivation to get volunteers and donations then to do something useful with them.
It's not RST's fault, it's DP's fault.
Then stop using DP's files. You can very quickly have 400 files formatted the way you want, and we can see if that will make readers happier then if we have 30,000 files formatted DP's way.
People are unsatisfied with RST because they are brainwashed into thinking that a simply formatted book is not good enough.
If you're going to treat people as brainless zombies, then you have to take a little responsibility. It is RST's fault, if RST can't successfully counterpropagandize and brainwash people into using it. In reality, I'm not an active member of DP, nor have I ever PPed much, but when one of the first things I read about it is "The primary goal of reStructuredText is to define and implement a markup syntax for use in Python docstrings and other documentation domains", it makes me wonder why I'd ever try and translate a 400 year-old book to a tool that's obviously not designed for it. Given the apparent lifespan of TEI-Lite, I'm having to wonder if learning this would just mean learning another new format a couple years down the road. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.