The first experimental PG plucker server is up.
Find the no. of the ebook you want and then call this url:
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/plucker/17000.plucker
replace 17000 with your ebook no.
This will build the file, if not existent. That may take some time when
the servers are busy.
From: Marcello Perathoner
Lambert, Mark wrote:
But it is low-hanging fruit that would make it simpler for
those that
have HTML.
If they have HTML, of course I use HTML. But more than half
of them don't.
No worries. I wasn't sure if you were or not so I thought I'd mention
it.
I'm the webmaster of Project Gutenberg and I'm about to install the
plucker distiller on the PG website. The idea is to have people download
a ready-made plucker pdb instead of requiring them to run the distiller
on the appropriate ebook file.
I'm going to replace the text/plain parser with a
That's a wonderful idea. Are you going to be caching the pdbs, or will
it be fast enough to generate on demand?
Sorry, don't know about sorting of bookmarks. I myself added sorting of
all records by URL to the parser, though, to keep chapters and the like
in the right order. Maybe the
Alexander R. Pruss wrote:
That's a wonderful idea. Are you going to be caching the pdbs, or will
it be fast enough to generate on demand?
I'll have to cache them.
Are you going to be making the docs split into 32K pages, or will you
use the continuation flag to make each doc look like a
David A. Desrosiers wrote:
I'm going to replace the text/plain parser with a custom one that will
(try to) parse chapter heads, italics etc. out of the plain text.
I'd be interested to see how you solve the context issue that has
been brought up on the pg lists over the last year or so.
, 2005 10:10 AM
To: plucker-dev@rubberchicken.org
Subject: Re: Plucker server on Project Gutenberg
David A. Desrosiers wrote:
I'm going to replace the text/plain parser with a custom one that
will (try to) parse chapter heads, italics etc. out of the plain
text.
I'd be interested to see how
Lambert, Mark wrote:
I don't know if this would help or not, but I always go off the HTML
version and break on any H1 or H2. That isn't perfect either, but is
easier to do.
Not all PG ebooks have an HTML version.
--
Marcello Perathoner
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On Behalf Of Marcello Perathoner
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 1:37 PM
To: plucker-dev@rubberchicken.org
Subject: Re: Plucker server on Project Gutenberg
Lambert, Mark wrote:
I don't know if this would help or not, but I always go off the HTML
version and break on any H1 or H2
Lambert, Mark wrote:
But it is low-hanging fruit that would make it simpler for those that
have HTML.
If they have HTML, of course I use HTML. But more than half of them don't.
--
Marcello Perathoner
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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