On Wed, February 23, 2011 3:07 am, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote: [snip]
meanwhile, p.g. (as run by marcello) stumbles along trying to make r.s.t. (1) work, and (2) acceptable to d.p.
Meanwhile, b.b. stumbles along trying to make z.m.l. (1) work, and (2) acceptable to p.g. I've no doubt that as a markup language ReStructured Text is superior to z.m.l. But any markup language relies on conformance and discipline to be useful, and discipline is what Project Gutenberg is utterly lacking in. My own view is that almost any markup language could satisfy (1), but that no markup language will be able to satisfy (2). [snip]
i paid my due respect to p.g. for _many_ years, and i continue to serve the cause of electronic-books, and i have zero need for your assessment of that...
I'll not discourage those who want to participate in the cult of the Bowerbird, but understand that neither cooperation, collaboration, compromise nor consensus are basic precepts of that faith. If you can accept his infallibility you should have no problems.