keith said:
This project belongs to dp! I thought this is PG. A PG list and want to improve PG.
the first rule of _cleaning_ a spill is to _stop_ the spill. it does no good to "fix" p.g. books if d.p. keeps sending "broken" stuff, especially in numbers which overwhelm all of the other contributors. plus, honestly, books that come from d.p. are more consistent than all the others. so any p.g. "change" _must_ start at d.p. that's just life. fortunately, that's not as bleak as it might sound. because it wouldn't be _that_ hard to change the d.p. way. the ironic thing is that, all along, my suggestions would have _saved_ work for the d.p. postprocessors... really! they expend lots of energy turning plain-text into .html. my converter-routine does that with the click of a button. that same button also creates .mobi, .epub, and .pdf too. and all these files are clean, consistent, and dependable. the key is to save the time and energy of postprocessors. *** after a while, i decided i didn't like d.p., because they are _mean_, so i didn't care if i saved their energy, so instead, i taunted them, and mocked their stupidity, which ensured that they _would_not_adopt_ my suggestions that would've saved _them_ a good deal of their time and energy, which i took as the perfect situation, as it punished their cruelty _and_ still allowed me the luxury of saying "i told you so"... it's sweet to make your enemies weep and gnash their teeth. but any of you, if you wanted to help d.p. _and_ p.g., can show them how they can save their own time and energy by adopting this text-to-html-plus workflow right now... indeed, hunter could _transform_guiguts_ into such a tool. (the reason people use guiguts is to save time and energy.) he just needs to reverse-engineer my workflow and scripts. heck, i'm even here to answer his questions, if he has any... then every book that d.p. sent to p.g. would contain: 1. .txt version. 2. .html version. 3. .mobi version. 4. .epub version. 5. .pdf version. (maybe too hard. or not. whichever.) no fuss, no muss. easy as pie, and it's a complete package, plus it all _works_. and the best part of all? well, that would be that you don't need to bow down to marcello no more. of course, if you'd rather have me snicker at your stupidity, and mock you mercilessly as you weep and gnash your teeth, well, that'd be o.k. with me too. i like to say "i told you so"... -bowerbird
BB> they expend lots of energy turning plain-text into .html. my converter-routine does that with the click of a button. that same button also creates .mobi, .epub, and .pdf too. and all these files are clean, consistent, and dependable. Why don't you just offer DP an alternative to guiguts?
Hi BB, Evidently, everybody has not to some very important views mentioned here. P.G does not have any rules that could be used by independent contributors. From recent statements DP has some consistency rules, but many ways of doing the same thing. That is not good. ANA is an attempt to provide guidance towards developing consistency rules. Once you have those,one can develop tools that abide by these rules. Polymorphisms, are computationally hard to handle if there is no way to test there consistency to the over model. You have created a consistent model from the start of the process to the end. From the comments here about DP, by others, and some interest of mine a couple of years ago, DP has no such consistent model. The way I look at it, is that those that have a say about how and what gets done are competent in their individual fields, yet they seem to have very little competence in the fine art of computer science. There are ways to get things done computationally, yet you must have rules to create models and then software. Sure, one can do without such models, but you end up with anarchy, which is the state at PG and DP. regards Keith. Am 09.02.2012 um 19:12 schrieb Bowerbird@aol.com:
keith said:
This project belongs to dp! I thought this is PG. A PG list and want to improve PG.
the first rule of _cleaning_ a spill is to _stop_ the spill.
it does no good to "fix" p.g. books if d.p. keeps sending "broken" stuff, especially in numbers which overwhelm all of the other contributors. plus, honestly, books that come from d.p. are more consistent than all the others.
so any p.g. "change" _must_ start at d.p. that's just life.
fortunately, that's not as bleak as it might sound.
because it wouldn't be _that_ hard to change the d.p. way.
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