On 1/19/2012 4:43 PM, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
You can submit either *one* HTML or *one* TEI or *one* RST file. In no case has anybody been posting multiple HTML files.
I wrote:
Is this an exclusive 'or' or an inclusive 'or'? If I submit an HTML file am I precluded from posting a TEI or an RST file? Or may I submit one of each?
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On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 07:28:30PM -0800, Al Haines wrote:
Marcello is correct.
[snip] On Sun, January 22, 2012 1:21 pm, Greg Newby wrote:
Yes, confirmed.
I think this is a strong demonstration of why it is important for technical people take more classes in technical writing. Mr. Perathoner started this thread making an ambiguous statement. The ambiguity was compounded when he stated "In no case has anybody been posting multiple HTML files," leading one to conclude that the issue here relates to multiple postings of a single markup format. I then asked for clarification of that statement, to remove the ambiguity. Mr. Haines and Mr. Newby each responded saying, in effect, "yes, Marcello's original ambiguity is the policy of Project Gutenberg." I am left to conclude that either the Project Gutenberg policy in this regard is still in a state of flux and the ambiguity is intentional, that Mr. Haines or Mr. Newby did not feel comfortable enough with their writing skills to actually respond to the question, or that neither of them gave anything more that cursory attention to the question actually posed. Given the usual practice on this list of paying little, or no, attention to what other people have to say, I suspect that the last alternative is the correct one. In any case, the ambiguity remains.