meanwhile, elsewhere... *** there's someone over at d.p. -- "tallforasmurf" -- who's programmed a post-processing application. it's called "ppqt". i wasn't able to get it to load up my page-scans, so i couldn't really give it a proper workout, but a cursory glance said it looks quite impressive... roger frank is doing a book with it, so maybe he will be kind enough to post his review of it here. it's built in python, meaning that it _might_ be relatively easy to make it a web-app as well, and the web-or-offline-whatever-you-feel-like-now mode _is_ the right way to fashion this toolset... so that's good news... *** and because it hardly ever gets mentioned here, let alone as often as it _should_ be, especially if we are talking about "p.g. times 10", check out:
their m.o. is progressive enhancement of _lots_ of books, which means they rarely get to certify _any_ of them as "finally finished", but that _is_ the wiki way; given that model, wikisource rocks. *** haveaniceweekend... :+) -bowerbird
On Oct 12, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
roger frank is doing a book with (ppqt), so maybe he will be kind enough to post his review of it here.
Tallforasmurf's ppqt program is very similar to guiguts with a several improvements: 1. it is written in Python, which to many is more maintainable than Perl 2. it has an active maintainer (thundergnat seems to have abandoned guiguts) 3. it handles UTF-8 well 4. you can add and save custom REs you use in post-processing 5. ppqt is very easy to install 6. it has a full-time png display, unlike guiguts I am using it for a solo book, right from the scans/text files. It's a good match for that. However, normally I don't use guiguts for books that have come through DP, so I'm probably not going to use ppqt for DP books, either. In using it, my first impression was that it appears to be surprisingly complete and clearly represents a lot of work over the year or so the author has been using it for his own books, refining it as needed. Documentation is good to excellent. If you use guiguts, definitely install and try ppqt. It's self-contained, low risk, easily uninstalled if it's not for you. Windows Mac or Linux. --Roger
Roger, I'm looking for this program and all I see is GitHub with the source code. Is there a website for this, or an installer? James Simmons On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Roger Frank <rfrank@rfrank.net> wrote:
On Oct 12, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
roger frank is doing a book with (ppqt), so maybe he will be kind enough to post his review of it here.
Tallforasmurf's ppqt program is very similar to guiguts with a several improvements:
1. it is written in Python, which to many is more maintainable than Perl 2. it has an active maintainer (thundergnat seems to have abandoned guiguts) 3. it handles UTF-8 well 4. you can add and save custom REs you use in post-processing 5. ppqt is very easy to install 6. it has a full-time png display, unlike guiguts
I am using it for a solo book, right from the scans/text files. It's a good match for that. However, normally I don't use guiguts for books that have come through DP, so I'm probably not going to use ppqt for DP books, either.
In using it, my first impression was that it appears to be surprisingly complete and clearly represents a lot of work over the year or so the author has been using it for his own books, refining it as needed. Documentation is good to excellent. If you use guiguts, definitely install and try ppqt. It's self-contained, low risk, easily uninstalled if it's not for you. Windows Mac or Linux.
--Roger
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