On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:50 PM, <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:

james said:
>   First, you moved all the front matter like title page,
>   TOC, preface, etc. to the back of the book.

that's of no consequence. this is a temporary work-product.

(i did it that way so the vast majority of pagenumbers worked,
because i was too lazy to build in the offsetting mechanism.)

>   Second, you have put <pre> tags around some content
>   that should be just blockquoted text.

which paragraphs, specifically, as a general class?

and yeah, i realize that question is self-contradicting, but...

the decision on formatting was made by a crude algorithm,
and i can probably improve it significantly, if i merely know
which paragraphs it formatted incorrectly. so please tell me.
i would look myself, but i've grown tired of this book, sorry.

all of this formatting can be changed by you, at a later time,
but i'm trying to do as much as i can for you, automatically,
since correcting the text will cause you enough pain as it is.

>   The family trees should be pre-formatted, but much of
>   what you made pre-formatted text doesn't really need to be.

right. that's what i was asking you to check.

>   italicized words also have underscores before and after.

no consequence.

>   Fourth, I noticed that this book is incredibly long
>   and I was crazy to work on it.

880k. it's not _that_ long. it does have a lot of names that
are not that familiar to westerners, but they can be handled
in a bulk manner, so that doesn't have to be so hard either.
diacritics can be hard, but that's just one global change too,
once you have a correct version of how each word should be.
(you'll laugh at yourself for having done 'em one-at-a-time.)

once you boil it down this way, it's not any harder than doing
two 225-page books. in fact, it's a little bit simpler than that.

>   I prefer having the contents of the book be
>   in the same order as the original

you don't really think i would move frontmatter to the back in
the final product, do you? no one would do that, would they?

>   and I think PG prefers TOCs with no page numbers.

you must learn not to confuse what p.g. wants with
what should be done. but yes, those pagenumbers
can be eliminated... but no, you shouldn't do that...
and finally, no, p.g. doesn't really care these days...

>   I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do with this HTML.

you aren't supposed to do _anything_ with this .html...
except what i said -- look at the colorized paragraphs,
and tell me which of them, if any, is improperly coded...

>   Is this the output of a light markup file you will give me?

it's output from the current version of the file, found at:
>   http://zenmagiclove.com/bhaga/bhaga.zml

but the book is still in my hands, and i'm not done yet...

i know that the idea you (and most people) now have
is that .html is something that you create "at the end",
when you're "all done" with the book. but i use it as
_a_tool_ that visualizes the work as it is in-progress.

try to rewire your brain to think that way.

>   Is there some sort of web interface coming for
>   working on this? I could use some clarification.

yes.

-bowerbird

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