bastien said:
>   Can you share some usable code?

you've been around long enough to know the answer to that.

so, am i going to just hand over all my code to my enemies
-- the mean people who called me names for many years,
and said that what i was suggesting was "impossible" --
so they can use my code against me, for their own agenda,
once they decided -- as indeed, they have now decided --
that i was totally correct all along, and that the only viable
workflow for project gutenberg is to use light markup?

no.  no.  a thousand times no.  and throw in a "screw you" too.

am i willing to help guide people who are willing to work
one-tenth as hard as i have?  well, yes, i most certainly am.

will i allow these people to be stuck for any period of time,
follow an unproductive path, or otherwise waste their time?
no, absolutely not.  that's what a guide is for -- to _guide_.

will i provide code fragments to these people so that they
can see how it was done, even if they cannot use the code
directly, because it's in basic, and they use something else?
yes i positively will, without any hesitation at all.

even deeper, will i explain carefully just exactly _why_
that approach to the code is the very best one to take, and
why other perspectives are flawed in one way or another?
yes, again, i will indeed provide such careful explanations.

am i going to give you a bucket of fish?  no, i'm not.

am i willing to teach you how to go fishing?  yes, i am.

-bowerbird