Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
i highlit that, but you weren't quick enough to get it: when _you_ select-all and copy out of a .pdf, do you get back _your_ "master" -- i.e, the original .tei file?
You don't. You don't need to. You can download the master from pg. alice.tei is 180k so on a 1MBit dsl the download will take: 1,4 seconds.
that reapplication will take more than my 2 minutes...
If I do a "select all" in acrobat and then paste it into OpenOffice all I get is a jumble of words without any formatting at all. I don't see any line breaks. I don't see any italics nor underscores in place of italics. I don't see any pictures. A run-of-the-mill user will not even try to do anything with this jumble of words spat across his screen.
that's round-tripping. power in the hands of the end-user. in fact, you could call it "power tripping" for short. really!
Or "power-cord tripping" for a better mental image. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org