don said:
>   What happened when you offered to
>   help the submitters fix their texts, so they
>   could learn how to avoid the problems in future?

seriously?

you're asking jim what kind of reaction he's gotten
when he has suggested to d.p. they could improve?

seriously?

how effective have you _yourself_ been at that, don?

which is why i can't believe you seriously asked that.

you're just jerking his chain.

anyway, officially, as i would guess you know, don, but
maybe not, d.p. has a committee that's "working on it".

at one time, they had 3 committees "working on it", but
then they all gave up, so they had to form another one...

the report has been coming "real soon now" for months.

of course, however, we all know what the reaction will be
to the report by the d.p. post-processors.  they'll reject it,
because they love tinkering with their .html, so that it will
"look like the printed book"...  this is the main "benefit" to
doing the post-processing, and it's how most of 'em were
recruited: that they could do the job however they wanted.
and they certainly will not give that up for epub/mobi files.
if they can't "make it pretty", they'll just stop doing the job.

i _warned_ them -- and juliet in particular, because she was
the one who was using the line to recruit people -- that this
model would backfire big time, but they didn't wanna hear it.
as for juliet, this particular point was the biggest reason that
i was eventually banned from posting over in the d.p. forums.

-bowerbird