On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:55:38PM +0200, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
Now, just to check my understanding, this is a document that went from PG-TEI -> zml -> HTML?
i started with plain-ascii text-files -- the origin of which is irrelevant --
No, it is not. Because you claim to be able to convert the existing texts of the pg archive with almost no markup work at all. Yet, to demonstrate your `converter' you take a file that was produced by a machine. Of course this file is much more regular, and thus easier to cope with, than most of the human-edited files in the pg archive.
Bowerbird: I disagree with your assessment that the origin of the source data doesn't matter. As Marcello so eloquently points out above, I find that there are several orders of magnitude of difference between "converting" plain text to HTML when a program generated the plain text from extremely rigorous markup language and converting a plain text file created by the collaborative efforts of several different humans (each with their own text editing software and habits). Perhaps you can explain why you think it is irrelevant?