The
RST files can be opened with any UTF-8 capable editor--SCUnipad, Windows
Notepad, MS Word, etc. (I can't speak to Mac software.) If you click
on the reStructuredText link, you should get a prompt to open or save the
file. You may have to set up an association of the .rst extension with the
editor of your choice.
They're meant only as a
master file from which other formats are generated--plain text, HTML, epub, etc,
etc. They are not an
end-user ebook format.
BTW--it's probably more accurate to say that PG doesn't
actually _use_ formats. Ebook producers (DP, independents) _use_
formats--PG decides which ones it will accept for posting. That's how
I see it, anyway--dissenters can argue among themselves.
<g>
Al
I read the instructions how to make
rst, and downloaded the .rst books bowerbird listed. My Calibre won't
convert them, my browser won't open them. What are they supposed to work
with?
i don't get over to the d.p.
forums very often these days,
so i didn't realize they started rolling
out their notice on
the shift to restructured-text last saturday,
december 11th.
i also didn't know this initiative was so far along,
in that
two r.s.t. e-books are already mounted (december
16th):
> http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34654
>
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34605
here's
my r.s.t. summary: the good, the bad, and the
ugly.
***
_restructured-text_at_project_gutenberg_
_the_good_
project
gutenberg is officially using a light-markup
format!
_the_bad_
the implementation uptake at d.p. will
likely be _very_slow_...
_the_ugly_
this change proves
that it is now marcello making p.g. policy.
***
i'll elaborate
on this summary in the coming days...
in the meantime... as you
can imagine, over the many years,
i have been an advocate of light-markup
all over cyberspace,
so now i can go out and tell the world that project
gutenberg
has finally endorsed my position and is using
light-markup!
of course, this leaves considerable egg on the faces of
people
like walter, who -- just last december 26th -- posted that i
was
a "hopeless fool" and that my proposals for light-markup
were
"fundamentally impossible". looks like you were wrong,
walter.
way wrong. way way wrong. even marcello has given it
all up.
-bowerbird
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