Enlightened self-interst
Having discovered Jane Austen regrettably late in life I have down-loaded a couple of novels and since I find the raw text format unpleasant to read I have reformatted for my own use. It seems to me since I have the ability to produce PDFs and OpenOffice formats and even - heaven forfend - MS doc format should they be wanted, it would be churlish not to make such an offer. If you can point me at a standard for PDF, page width, font size etc, etc., and let me know what formats you do want I would be happy to undertake the small additional work for the two novels I have currently downloaded. I cannot supply DocBook at this time but hope to have that available shortly. Regards -- Ron Aitchison
One possible problem is that PDF files are not easily editable. All of our older texts are being gradually worked through, corrected, supplied with a new PG header (which puts all the legal "small print" at the end of the file instead of the beginning) and REPosted into the currant directory structure. When this process is done it will make some of the back-end organization much easier to deal with. However, if during this process, we come across a non-editable file (PDF, Lit, whatever), we cannot update it, and it's generally moved into an "old" directory, where it is still availible if someone goes looking for it, but otherwise is not shown in the catalog. Andrew On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Ron Aitchison wrote:
Having discovered Jane Austen regrettably late in life I have down-loaded a couple of novels and since I find the raw text format unpleasant to read I have reformatted for my own use. It seems to me since I have the ability to produce PDFs and OpenOffice formats and even - heaven forfend - MS doc format should they be wanted, it would be churlish not to make such an offer. If you can point me at a standard for PDF, page width, font size etc, etc., and let me know what formats you do want I would be happy to undertake the small additional work for the two novels I have currently downloaded. I cannot supply DocBook at this time but hope to have that available shortly. Regards
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:38:18AM -0500, Ron Aitchison wrote:
Having discovered Jane Austen regrettably late in life I have down-loaded a couple of novels and since I find the raw text format unpleasant to read I have reformatted for my own use. It seems to me since I have the ability to produce PDFs and OpenOffice formats and even - heaven forfend - MS doc format should they be wanted, it would be churlish not to make such an offer. If you can point me at a standard for PDF, page width, font size etc, etc., and let me know what formats you do want I would be happy to undertake the small additional work for the two novels I have currently downloaded. I cannot supply DocBook at this time but hope to have that available shortly.
Hi, Ron. I don't think your offer ever got a response. Sorry about that! We would love to have HTML for our Austen titles that are missing it. Generally, we're a little cool on .doc, .pdf, .sxw, etc. due to fears for their longevity, and difficulty in applying fixes. In the future we hope to have much more XML, but are still working on getting the production stream moving for it. If you produce some new formats, please first consult the FAQ on production guidelines: http://gutenberg.org/faq Then, email pgww@pglaf.org and we'll arrange some good ways for you to get them to us (depending on how many you want to prepare, etc.). Thanks again for this offer! -- Greg
Regards
-- Ron Aitchison
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