Well, to close the circle, if they were posted, they would be (I say this advisedly) perfect fodder for, say, an offline utility program to run automated checks and do basic formatting. I bet in most cases one person could whip up a high-quality post-PP equivalent in, say, a day or two.
Yes, after the initial proposal, there were 5 or six other proposals made in the same thread to drag it off in odd courses. As far as I can see there's only one person actually doing anything other than argue. That's hanne_dk and I hope to see an automated script to process DPs intermediate files into something that doesn't look too bad for most texts. It appears it'll never get "official" approval as there's too many people adamantly against doing to to "their" texts. Oh well.
Greg Weeks
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Andrew Sly wrote:
I agree that's what has been said in discussions on the DP forums.
I would argue that intent was not clear from what's been been posted
on this list.
>From what I've seen, it's hard to stay focused on one concept, becauseeveryone starts dragging in their own concerns on marginally related
topics and making those the main focus.
--Andrew
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Greg Weeks wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Al Haines (shaw) wrote:_______________________________________________
Speaking as a Whitewasher (and probably for the other WWers, too), I have
absolutely no interest in posting a "preliminary" version of something if a
"revised" version is going to appear in a few days/weeks/months, requiring me
to re-do the posting process. Ditto for posting a text-only version if an
HTML version is in the works.
The proposal isn't to "post" to PG at all, but to something like
preprints.readingroo.ms but entirely automated.
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