D Garcia wrote:
But the cost is too high. Especially the illuminated drop caps break the etext when viewed in many user-agents. This is how #7870 looks in lynx:
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THE PATERNOSTERS.
A YACHTING STORY.
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ND do you really mean that we are to cross by the steamer, Mr. Virtue, while you go over in the Seabird? I do not approve of that at all. ...
There's no reason a pre-processing script can't be used to detect an image with single-letter alt text before a paragraph and rewrite that bit before passing it to lynx.
You don't see the problem. All people who use a non-css user-agent (browser, screen-reader, text-to-speech processor, braille line, etc.) will have this problem. Should they all write a script before reading the book? PG has always laid great stress on posting correct html. This html is plainly broken and should not have been posted. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org