On Wed, March 2, 2011 12:22 pm, James Adcock wrote:
where we disagree is that you seem to think those differences _matter_, in some important way. they don't matter. at least not in the example i provided. not in the slightest. not at all.
That these issue "matter" is simply confirmed by trying to read the generated ebook file formats from PG many if not most of which fail in pretty spectacular ways on real world ebook reader devices.
Actually, that these issues matter is simply confirmed by the number of posts here (and elsewhere), where someone says "the difference matters to me." What BowerBird is saying is fundamentally a syllogism: 1. These differences do not matter to me. 2. The world revolves around me, and no-one else's opinions matter. 3. QED: These differences do not matter to the world. I would happily participate in any effort to come up with a format which can be repurposed algorithmically to satisfy the individual tastes of the greatest possible number of people. But people who say that my, or other people's, opinions do not count I will simply ignore, as they bring nothing to the table. They are obviously so egocentric that they cannot be persuaded by reason or logic.