Let's have the code, and install it where everyone can find/use it. Right away, without further ado. . . . i.e. send the code now Help Newby set it up later. On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
the original linebreaks _should_ be preserved.
because some people _want_ them.
and those original linebreaks _should_ be easy to remove as well.
because some people _want_ to remove them.
what nobody wants -- not really -- is a set of _new_ linebreaks, which have no legacy import.
but even those are bearable, _if_ they can be easily removed.
and let us recall, again, that project gutenberg has _not_ made available a web-service which people can utilize to unwrap p.g. e-texts...
_i_ have created such a web-service.
but project gutenberg has not.
which is a minor failing.
(i'd be happy to provide my code, if you want it.)
and let us recall, again, that project gutenberg does _not_ ensure that every one of its e-texts is structured so that it can be unwrapped properly.
this one is a _major_ failing.
these are the two things that project gutenberg must do if it wants to proclaim that it has done all that it can to make its linebreaks a non-issue.
-bowerbird