... I don't buy the 'ignorance' angle. ... A literary pirate is one who sells, trades, or otherwise shares things when such actions are proscribed by law. ... ...
Which is precisely why I compared the initial response to the site as identical to that of the RIAA. If writers and editors and even publishers have problems...
After the recent discussions about the accuracy of e-texts, I dug out the following announcements. They may be interesting or even useful to some members of...
Ernest G. Allen
ernestgallen@...
Mar 1, 2005 7:42 pm
22121
... Yup. One could. ... I'd planned to see if he/she'd send me a copy of my own book, then take action. ... YOU'RE assuming that I had already assigned guilt. ...
Thanks, John. oXygen (www.xmloxygen.com) seems targetted towards the rather specialized field of editing XML, using an Eclipse-like tool framework. I'm...
... Ah, let's dream... Someday, someone at Adobe creates a digitized copy of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and sets the eBook encoder to prohibit ...
Hello! Firstly I have to tell how I do "hate" this group. I have been away for something around a week and a hundred new e-mails appeared as if there was...
... Bill, NeoOffice/J is the most-native OSX version of OpenOffice.org which will do what you want. Another open-source effort would be LyX, since you know...
... <snip> ... <snip> ... In light of all your experiences, and the thread on My Antonia, it seems incomplete to say "I produced an e-book version of Mark...
[pond suggested NeoOffice/J, LyX, Mellel, Ulysses, and MacJournal.] Thanks! I really appreciate all the suggestions. Mellel (http://www.redlers.com/) looks...
... Just out of curiosity, what don't you like about Pages? I haven't used it, but it looks pretty spiffy. From what I read on the net, it stores at least the...
Hey Skippi, I talked to one of the programmers where I work and he said that you might want to check out this freeware open source program that will allow you...
The best text editor on Mac OS X is BBEdit, a free version of which is called TextWrangler. Rick -- Rick Sutcliffe's EPPIE award winning Christian SF and his...
Bill Janssen <bill@...> wrote: [...snip...] ... [...snip...] About a year ago I tried Mellel, just to check it out as a regular word processor. I was...
Ernest G. Allen
ernestgallen@...
Mar 2, 2005 10:31 pm
22132
I plugged "read an eBook week in the March issue of Southern Review of Books posted Feb. 28. For anyone interested, the March edition may be accessed by...
Hello! At the end of March an interesting conference on e-learning took place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Distinguished speakers, vice-pres from...
... I've been going through your version of "My Antonia", and I have a few suggestions to make; I thought I'd do it here in a public forum in case anyone may...
NetWorker
networker@...
Mar 3, 2005 5:27 pm
22135
Did anyone ever ask for the errata sheets? _I_ certainly would like a copy of each of the versions mentioned. Thanks! Michael...
Michael Hart
hart@...
Mar 3, 2005 7:15 pm
22136
... Looking more carefully at the CSS spec, I see that the unscore is the only puntuation symbol allowed in identifier names. Therefore, please change all...
NetWorker
networker@...
Mar 3, 2005 11:23 pm
22137
... Yes, that is a problem: how to be able to swap style sheets for a single document. XHTML does not (it seems) provide a native "menuing" way to allow an...
I've been thinking about how & where to find new readers who may not specifically be considered 'ereaders' at present, but who would be relatively comfortable...
Some comments of agreement, warning, and suggestion, and some questions... ... Ditto on setting a fixed width. Please don't do it. ... Ditto on using an...
Ernest G. Allen
ernestgallen@...
Mar 5, 2005 10:58 am
22140
... <!-- snip --> ... I think this ordering is important because, anarchist that I am, I think the end user should _always_ get the last word on presentation....
NetWorker
networker@...
Mar 5, 2005 6:33 pm
22141
... I prefer in XHTML to use the <em> and <strong> tags for all types of emphasis and use the 'class' attribute to define the particular kind of emphasis it is...
I have been working on this very problem for the past three months and have come up with a software solution, which has launched today, Saturday, 5-Mar. I...
... <!-- snip --> ... What I think we have here is a _big_ difference in our perceptions of the market. In today's Teleread blog, Mr. Rothman unfairly...
NetWorker
networker@...
Mar 5, 2005 8:17 pm
22144
I decided to learn how one can use CSS to replace a tag with an image. Looking at CSS Zen Garden, it is quite easy. But the markup itself has to be properly...
... and have come up with a software solution, which has launched today, Saturday, 5-Mar. I invite Ed, and other authors/publishers to visit booktrumpet.com...
If nothing else did, the last few postings confirm my belief that all of these markup formats have a relatively short "shelf life." I understand that in...
... [snip] ... I wasn't disagreeing on the ordering of the CSS, and I agree that the end user should always be able to customize or change the presentation,...
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