On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 05:20 +0200, guy keren wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > > > 2. your copy of the reference (which looks like my html with the html > > striped, and no new content) comes as gibberish. in plain text you > > cannot specify an encoding type... obviously you're trying to make some > > people's life harder.... > > > Oh, sorry, forgot to say: I converted everything but your html to UTF-8. > It's the only encoding which (one day) won't require specifying an > encoding type.rst2html does specify the encoding of course. [BTW, > your html didn't specify any encoding.]
i have used the ancient "meta http-equiv" tag, to supply the encoding. is it non-standard by now? i forgot adding the DOCTYPE tag with its own encoding when i first created this page... > > > So far I've created an upstream/ directory with Guy's html and scripts > > > to import it, convert it to rst_ text and back to html.The conversion > > > works OK on the small top pages and the reference but is too bad for the > > > book - I'll tackle that later (not too hard to fix by hand if anybody > > > wants it now). > > > > *shrug* and here we go from working on content, to working on tools to > >manage it. that's what i call constructive procrastination.... :P~~ > > > Well, I did learn some OCaml hacking the html2rst tool ;-P. > > Don't worry, I will not go to sleep before I send what I've got.I just > want to work some more tonight... if this was a program, and today was delivery day, i'd tell you "work done on the last few hours before delivery is buggy and crappy". luckily, this isn't source code, and this isn't (yet) the delivery day.... and i did ask you to send something already yesterday - it would have taken you 30 secodns to send me the file - and it wouldn't have hurt your ability to continue working on it and send a newer version later on. in the current method, if there's something terribly wrong with what you're doing - i'll only find about it after you're gone - so you are leaving no place for any interaction... -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
