Hi Don, You are write about this. But, the people over at DP want more. Which is also fine. The problem is that over at DP they seem to me to focused on output formating. What they do seem to understand that you can use markup as pseudo-code or pseudo-mark for that matter. The want to keep as much information as possible. That is not hard if you use pseudo-code. The first step would be as you said is to match the scanned image. So you have a text containing alot of code marking the original linebreaks, chapter beginnings, page marks, page numbers, bold, italics, indentation, images. This markup will not be easily human-readable, but computers do good work of rendering/display in an appropriate fashion. Then all you need is a simple tool that parser this format into the output format you want. e.g for plain text: throw-out page breaks, images, hyphenation convert footnotes to PG Style convert bold, italics, PG Style start output PG Style output PG Header output text PG Style two linebreaks for paragrahs before Chatpters, etc. wrap accordingly This an other simplification. for HTML (everything in one page) throw-out hyphenation create tags for bold, italic create tags for chapter header, with anchors create tags for paragraphs repecting indentation for verse and such. throw-out linebreaks create footnotes. with anchors create tags for images create TOCs You could also have the system produce a more complex HTML-structure, directories for chatpters, one file per page, etc. The same procedure can be applied to other output formats. That is the cool thing about pseudo-code it does not produce output if you do not want it or need it!! regards Keith. Am 21.02.2010 um 06:14 schrieb don kretz:

It's not trivial that it would make shared proofing a lot easier and less ambiguous.

Just match the image.

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ReStructuredText <http://www.freebase.com/view/en/restructuredtext/-/user/sandos/computation>is a newer one that seems to be particularly extensible (hence expressive and adaptable.) On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 8:46 AM, don kretz <dakretz@gmail.com> wrote:

Keith, I agree 100% I've been arguing markdown and textile - even zml - for years.

Don

don kretz wrote:

ReStructuredText <http://www.freebase.com/view/en/restructuredtext/-/user/sandos/computation>is a newer one that seems to be particularly extensible (hence expressive and adaptable.)

This is an example of a RST that EpubMaker (the converter that does all PG epubs) can convert to an industrial-strength epub: .. -*- encoding: utf-8 -*- .. meta:: :DC.Creator: Raymond Chandler :DC.Title: The Big Sleep :DC.Language: English :DC.Created: 1939 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .. contents:: Contents :backlinks: entry Chapter 1 ========= It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars. [...] Chapter 2 ========= [...] -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org