re: [gutvol-d] differentiating between indentation and no indentation after p...
jon ingram said:
It would be more sensible to mark the poem (indeed the whole work) in TEI, and use that as the canonical version.
um, no thanks...
Hopefully within a couple of years almost all the work DP produces will be in a format which will enable us to produce multiple document versions (HTML, text, PDF, LaTeX) with very little human intervention required.
it's interesting that "the magical time" is always _a_couple_of_years_, isn't it? when i came to this list two years ago, it was "a couple years" away. and it still is. like a mirage, it's always within sight, but somehow never gets any closer... nonetheless, it looks like roger frank has made some good progress lately. keep up the good work, people...
Hopefully within a couple of years almost all the work DP produces will be in a format which will enable us to produce multiple document versions (HTML, text, PDF, LaTeX) with very little human intervention required.
i can produce text, html, and pdf with a .zml file today. so big whoop. -bowerbird
Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
-- for immediate release --
date: 14 february 2003 dateline: los angeles, california contact: bowerbird intelligentleman bowerbird@aol.com 310.980.9202
bowerbird intelligentleman announces an open-source project geared toward creating an o.e.b. "presentation system", i.e., a cross-platform reader-program that will allow users to read o.e.b files.
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bowerbird further indicated that he is fully confident that the effort would bear fruit quickly, since he has previously programmed a wide variety of electronic-book applications.
it's interesting that "the magical time" is always _a_couple_of_years_, isn't it? when i came to this list two years ago, it was "a couple years" away. and it still is. like a mirage, it's always within sight, but somehow never gets any closer...
May I ask how many copies of this "presentation system" you have distributed so far and how many people are actively using it ?
i can produce text, html, and pdf with a .zml file today. so big whoop.
As long as anybody isn't that bigoted as to want *validating* html. In that case he'll have to wait ... hmmmm ... a couple of years more ? -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
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