2009/9/8 Greg M. Johnson <pterandon@gmail.com>
Hi.
Hi Greg M.
I have looked at PG's books in both HTML and TXT formats, on several different devices, from large-screen laptops to netbooks to an Ipod Touch.
In just about every possible scenario, I had the line breaks creating an irregular right margin down the screen that made for unpleasant reading. I also tried taking one of the raw TXT files to make "my own" HTML file, and was tripped up by the line breaks.
You can visit: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Readers%27_FAQ#R.30._When_I_print_ou.... First, all paragraphs and separate lines should be separated by two HRs, so that you can see one blank line between them. Where they aren't, as in the case of a table of contents or lines of verse, add the extra HRs to make them so. Replace All occurrences of two HRs with some nonsense character or string that doesn't exist in the text, like ~$~. Replace All remaining HRs with a space. Replace your inserted string ~$~ with one HR.
In order to prevent me from making the suggestion of changing the whole collection, can someone tell me why that number of characters on the screen was chosen?
You can visit: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Volunteers%27_FAQ#About_the_formatti... The idea is: using a pure text format, with a number of lines per page that can readable in most computers and preserved for the future to come. Ricardo F. Diogo