There is an ongoing effort to move to a master XML format, but instead of DocBook, we've tentatively chosen TEI (or rather, more specifically, a subset of TEI). If you'd like more information about it, please see this website: http://www.gutenberg.org/tei/ Also, if you have specific questions, I'd be happy to answer them to the best of my ability. Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: Pupeno <pupeno@pupeno.com> To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org Subject: [gutvol-d] DocBook Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 04:08:22 -0300
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Hello, I'm new to the Gutenberg project and I think it's awesome, so much information, literature, on-line, for free. The only thing I don't like is the format, plain text doesn't seem very good for storing books. Then some books are in HTML, that's even worst. I personally prefeer DocBook[1] for storing books. For those of you that doesn't know what DocBook is: it is an xml-based format designed exclusively for storing books where no information about how the book will be seen in a graphical screen is stored but information about what things are. It has tags for separating chapters, appendices, prefaces, parts, books (in sets of books), etc. This is not just a complain. I'd like to know if you'd be intrested in adopting DocBook, at least as one of the possible formats (being that DocBooks can be turned easily into HTML, PDF and Plain text [2], I would recomend DocBook as the main format); if so, I'm willing to donate some of my time to the cause in researching and developing a way to offer DocBooks (specially, how the current books can be turned into DocBook). If you'd like to know more about this, I already have some ideas but I didn't want to write a kilometer long email, just tell me and I'll elaborate more. Thank you. - -- Pupeno: pupeno@pupeno.com - http://www.pupeno.com Reading Science Fiction ? http://sfreaders.com.ar
[1] http://www.docbook.org [2] Take a look to Science Fiction Reader's library: http://sfreaders.com.ar/library , all the files except the DocBooks are automatically created. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Je Ĵaŭdo Januaro 6 2005 10:34, Joshua Hutchinson skribis:
There is an ongoing effort to move to a master XML format, but instead of DocBook, we've tentatively chosen TEI (or rather, more specifically, a subset of TEI).
If you'd like more information about it, please see this website: http://www.gutenberg.org/tei/
Why did you make your own DTD ? Instead of using the standard TEI one ? - -- Pupeno: pupeno@pupeno.com - http://www.pupeno.com Reading Science Fiction ? http://sfreaders.com.ar -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB3WNnfW48a9PWGkURAu3DAJ0VOFoD1k3GuNQDUDsxDLXsN08TZQCfeWeH xf4V5XKwq6SWKDMSbeA4fLA= =UX41 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Pupeno wrote:
Why did you make your own DTD ? Instead of using the standard TEI one ?
Because this is the way TEI is supposed to be used. Nobody uses the full TEI DTD as basis for a markup project. You decide which subset of TEI you need for your project and generate a DTD (yourself or with a tool called the Pizza Chef). There is even a standard way to extend TEI if the full TEI doesn't contain the tags you want. I used this standard way to add some presentational tags, to help the automatic generation of file formats. Still my conversion tools will handle almost any standard TEI-lite file. See: www.gutenberg.org/tei/ -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Pupeno wrote:
Why did you make your own DTD ? Instead of using the standard TEI one ?
The whole design of TEI is based on the idea that it can be taken and adpated for local use in a vast range of different projects. It is not intended to be ready to use "out-of-the-box". Andrew
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