gerald said: > Again thanks for the great comments. sure thing. thanks for creating the resource.
one thing i forgot. the most interesting thing about project gutenberg these days comes not from that project itself, but from an effort that calls itself "project gitenberg", which is putting the p.g. e-texts into github, or rather a customized iteration of github that had to be created when the number of repositories (one/book) overwhelmed the regular system. of course, the entire github infrastructure is ridiculously complicated overkill for a task as simple as managing the very small edits that are typical of a finished p.g. e-text, but someone had a hammer they wanted to use. and sure enough, someone else had money to fund grants for people to use hammers, so -- you know -- the effort now has some legs. the reason it's interesting, however, is that one of the first goals gitenberg set out was to transform the e-texts into .html and then e-book formats, which is the very thing that was my intent when i focused on p.g. in 1999. (what i've learned, over the last 35 years, is that i'm exactly 16 years "ahead of my time".) anyway... last i heard, gitenberg is leaning to asciidoc. that's a good plan, but they'll need to mod it. so, in the end, they'll have something that is exactly like z.m.l., light-markup for long-form. > https://github.com/GITenberg/gitenberg.github.com > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gitenberg-project > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8214564 -bowerbird p.s. gitenberg could also be using "markua", which is scheduled to release an update on the alpha version of itself sometime _today._ markua is to be a markdown-inspired flavor that will be specially modified for long-form. so i guess you can say we have a trend now. for the record, asciidoc predated markdown, and it always had some focus on long-form. so did restructured-text, per its status as the light-markup used for python documentation. thus, once you start talking about _books_, markdown is lagging the field, considerably. but hey, it's never to late to muddy the waters! _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
