----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Passey" <lee@novomail.net>

I suspect we are in violent agreement on this point. The OpenReader proposal is even now in the early stages of exactly the same historical process you have described for the MPEG standard. The proposal has been made, and is being discussed. The very announcement that started this thread is an indication that a first implementation is being worked on. The Thout Reader developed by OSoft is, in fact, an open-source, GPLed, User Agent written in Java (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/thout/).

Excellent. For my part, I'd be happy to help test a conversion process to go from our TEI master document to OpenReader's format. The software would have to be open source and run on a linux box, but beyond that, knock yourself out. The above offer is not necessary to Lee (or just to Lee) but anyone that wants to work on conversion routines. The more formats PG can support, the better, imo. JHutch PS TEI can currently output txt, html and pdf ... if there is a converter out there that will go from HTML to openreader or txt to openreader, that might be a good starting point to work from.