Bowerbird, I have been doing some mass search and replaces. I'm still putting in em-dashes by hand, but a lot of the names that need accenting I've been trying to do by mass search and replace. I am somewhat familiar with this book so I can sometimes guess which accented words will pop up in future pages and which won't. Roger's idea of running text through a preprocessor to try and guess which lines are poetry, which are blockquotes, etc. sounds appealing to me. A two-phase approach like that might make HTML conversions more accurate. I know that what I have now would not survive the GUIGUTS HTML converter. I'm not devoting a lot of time to the Bhaghavat Purana these days. It may be several weeks before I am finished with it. I could take a break in the middle of it to work on a Bhagavad Gita translation. That is a much shorter book, but one that is definitely worthy of PG. If you wanted to abandon BP and instead try to create something along the same lines for Bhagavad Gita that might be better. I could use your software from the beginning, doing it exactly the way you wish, and I would benefit from text that has em-dashes and maybe even italics and accents preserved. I cannot retrofit these things in BP easily, so I'd rather trudge on as I've been doing. BG would prove the value of your approach, I think. BP has so many tables and family trees that it really demands the approach I'm taking. I've had to rework the family trees to make them work as 70 column ASCII text. I don't think DP could have done this, for example. The Bhagavad Gita translation I'm leaning towards doing is this one: http://www.archive.org/details/srimadbhagavadg00swamgoog James Simmons On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:09 PM, <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:

so, james, i'm finally getting around to trying to figure out what to do about you and your book, and whether i can help you.

so i did a compare between a file of the book from december 22nd and just the other day...

and i see some interesting stuff...        :+)

i expected to find you'd done a few more pages, with everything before them basically the same, and everything after them still left untouched...

but what i actually found is that you have been doing some book-wide global-change editing, including a mass fix of spacey doublequotes, and some global-change name replacements. looks like you also did a hunt for em-dashes...

well done, my friend.

i'm sure it was all your idea, and a good idea it was, sir!  i applaud your accomplishments...

anyway...

i think what i would need to do is to _rewrap_ the file back to its original p-book linebreaks, and reintroduce indicators for the pagebreaks.

that's what it would take to put it in my system.

i'm willing to _try_ to do those things, to see if it's relatively _easy_ to do them, and -- if so -- (but there are no guarantees!), then i would be able to build a system for you.  will you use it? if not, i won't bother.  but if so, i'll give it a try.

-bowerbird

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