----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Adcock" <jimad@msn.com> To: "'Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion'" <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 2:34 PM Subject: [gutvol-d] Re: In search of a more-vanilla vanilla TXT
TEI comes to mind as format perfectly suitable to preserve a lot that HTML cannot.
Um, this standard is 1350 pages long. Tell me again why I should be reading it? I want to code books -- not the Sistine Chapel.
Check out http://pgtei.pglaf.org/. Marcello's PG-TEI manual is <200 pages. There's also TEI-Lite at http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/Customization/Lite/.
I don't see any problem here: Produce utf-8 files.
But that would still leave all the other problems with txt files. And the reason we are required to produce txt is to support those with teletypewriters. Rhetorically speaking why not just produce as bad txt files as one can and still get away with it and hope that someday soon both Gut readers and Gut content produces will see the light and give txt up as long gone dead?
Text will never be dead. It's portable to all platforms, doesn't need a browser or a PDF-like reader, only the most basic editor. In modern terms, it's the stem cell of ebook files--all else can be generated from it. Maybe with greater or lesser prettiness, but as long as you get the words, who cares what the quote marks look like?
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