Re: HWG and Project Gutenberg

The text is all meant to be in 65 character width ASCII, however i came
across one the other day with polish characters in it, which are not
included in the ASCII set.

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Arjun Ray <aray(at)q2.net>
To: Frank Boumphrey <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: HWG and Project Gutenberg


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>
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Frank Boumphrey wrote:
>
> > TEI as you know is SGML and we are using XML. Also it is way too
> > complicated for our volunteers.
>
> The SGML part isn't much of a problem: TEI markup can be XML-ized, and
> besides, they haven't let the grass grow under their feet.  TEI-lite
> has been around for a while, and there's XML versions in the works (if
> not out already.)
>
> I'd say keeping at least the option of hooking up with TEI could be a
> good idea.  They have resources, mindshare, clout, everything.:)
>
> > I thought of using DocBook,(Norman Walshs xml dtd is quite good),
> > but the same arguments apply.
>
> Docbook is much too detailed, I agree.
>
> > I could not find any other suitable DTDafter a diligent search.
> > Ifyou know of one please bring it ot my attention.
>
> I'll look around, certainly.
>
> Meanwhile, a question (I suppose I could post to the lists I just
> joined, but I don't know if anyone is paying attention, yet:))
>
> The "official" texts, at the Project Gutenberg site: they're in ASCII,
> fine.  Is it safe to treat each such text as "canonical"?
>
> (The reason why I ask has to do with the possibility of "indirect"
> markup, where the marked up version has none of the original text,
> just references - as simple as line-numnber+column, perhaps.)
>
>
> Arjun
>
>

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