Hi Don, The problem at PG is you have to produce the software and prove its value. Another problem is that the software used is poorly documented and IMHO not very well written from a software maintenance point of view. There is not much emphasis on modularity and extensibility. Most code must be either refractored or better yet completely rewritten from the bottom up. I believe we both now how good software should look like. If we want do do this we will have to spear head ourselves and hope it will be adopted. regards Keith. Am 03.02.2012 um 03:46 schrieb don kretz:
For the foreseeable future the only reasonable way to make a dent in the quality of current projects is to repair what's already there with software. I know it's possible to infer a lot of the intended display elements from the patterns applied by the PP software, mainly guiguts. Fixed-dimension images can be converted to %s. Or removed sizes entirely and let them be constrained by container elements that are already there. The infamous page markup is especially possible to refactor into something useful, hidden, and/or removed.
I'll contribute the methods I've developed for EB (which is only a subset). Others should be discoverable with a reasonable amount of effort.
It will take some work and cooperation. The critical question still remains: will PG allow existing projects to be altered this way? Under what condtions? With what verification requirements?
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Lee Passey <lee@novomail.net> wrote: On 2/2/2012 7:14 PM, Jim Adcock wrote:
I've put some more recent examples of the "tweak the HTML" approach as opposed to "rewrite everything in another language" up at:
http://freekindlebooks.org/KF8
One of the things that is most frustrating about trying to converse with BowerBird is that he absolutely refuses to give a straight answer to a straight question; instead he just gives a whole bunch of examples and says, "See how great I am! No figure out how I did it!"
On that note, I'm much less interested in seeing what happens when you "tweak the HTML," than in getting a straight answer explaining exactly what you did to each file to get the output you are so proud of.