Michael S. Hart wrote:
I can't tell you how many times we posted info about different ways to remove hard returns, what they were, etc., etc., etc.
Strawman. The problem is to decide which LF to retain. In Hamlet there are speeches that are verse and speeches that are prose. The LFs in verse need to be retained! There has never been posted any info on how to achieve this. OTOH there is much empirical evidence that the problem of restoring PG plain texts is intractable: Very many people have tried to write tools that convert the plain text mess into something usable. GutenMark, Munseys, Manybooks etc. come to mind. But when you download some of their machine-made repackages of PG you see that they didn't get very far. PG has a very high standard of accuracy for the words, thus an automatic conversion has to achieve the same high standard for the formatting. Unless somebody can provide this tool, much information has been lost. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org