On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 03:28:51PM -0500, N Wolcott wrote:
Although there are 19 French texts of Jules Verne on PG, there at least 17 more ready to go which only require converting from html to text format. I have identified at least V008, V010 .V014, V016, V017,
How long and difficult for you is this? It may prove much easier and faster for me (depending on your answer).
V020, V024, V037, V043, V039, V047, V052, V055, V060 which are available at http://jv.gilead.org.il/works.html. Use the list at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/sherwood/Voyages_Extraordinaire.htm as a Vxxx check list.
Interestingly, this bears copyright notice even on the books it recognizes come from PG: see at the end of http://jv.gilead.org.il/pg/vcen/01.html The answer "this is an automated footer, please ignore" is not an excuse to me.
Several of these are also on http://www.ebooksgratuits.com/ (which also has many others and from which the above may have been taken) already in Word format. This conversion is not a big job, and no doubt the more technical of you already have software which will do
I am in touch with ebooksgratuits to help them port their Word format to PG (in XHTML 1.0 Strict and TXT). See the tests at http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/blondeel/PGDP/ebooksgratuits/ Right now I just found a Unix machine where I can put my conversion software as a CGI because my Perl scripts crash for him in Cygwin for no apparent reason.
the conversion at a click. It would be nice if PG could have as many of the 65 Voyages Extraordinaires on by March 24, the centenary of Verne's death when many celebrations are planned..
That should be possible, as long as you / we / I tell him PG would like as much as Jules Verne as possible by March 24th.
While some of these have trickled on to PG from time to time, a more concerted effort is required to finish the job.
I am preparing a long message for this list giving a number of general ideas to improve PG / PGDP, and this is one of them :)