sorry, i screwed up that last post, and forgot to include this: greg said:

Your earlier message said you could offer reformatting into any reasonable format, as long as the input was sufficiently well-formed to your standards. 

actually, as the header shows, i said "any possible format", which is kind of ludicrous in retrospect, isn't it? so let's be precise about exactly _what_ formats we mean, in the future, and let us further provide _samples_ so that people can evaluate the _quality_ of the conversions we do. otherwise, it's just a hype war, and that does no one any good.

Sounds like you don't actually have any such thing.

it's not released yet, no. but i have pointed to samples.

Put it up for free public download, and I'll change my tune in a heartbeat.

would that you were so demanding of the .tei folks. *** now, let me restate, just to remind everybody again, i have no objection to the .tei folks, or the .xml folks. i don't even have an objection that .tei is the "official" position on how project gutenberg moves to the future. i merely wish to assert _my_ opinion, which i will back up with solid evidence, that a much simpler methodology will give substantially similar (if not better) benefits, at a cost (both initial and maintenance) that is _significantly_ lower. even then, if people want to stick with the .tei/.xml method, that's fine with me, as it is no skin off my nose. comprenez? -bowerbird