Jon Noring wrote:
LIT is essentially an encapsulated OEBPS 1.0.1 Publication. What ReaderWorks does is take HTML and "conforms" it internally to OEBPS, then converts it to LIT using Microsoft's litgen.dll.
I'll add new formats to the PGTEI converter on the condition that: 1. all components of the converter MUST be open source, 2. all components of the converter MUST run under linux, 3. the new format SHOULD be documented and be an open standard, 4. there SHOULD be at least one free as in beer reader. Ad 1. The converter must run on servers at ibiblio. We cannot afford server licenses. Besides, I'm a narrow-minded free software bigot bastard and proud of it. Ad 2. The converter must run on ibiblio servers which run on linux. Ad 3. Ideally the format should be an open standard like HTML. I personally won't do any work on undocumented formats. But if anybody else takes the trouble I'm not going to stand in their way. Ad 4. Ideally the viewer should be open source, but I'll settle for a free beer one. It just feels wrong to make people pay for a viewer to read free books on. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org