my scope is to give people a full toolchain for the entire workflow,
from initial authoring through web-publishing and on into remixing.
for that, you need a good format, and authoring-tools for that format,
and viewer-programs for it, and conversion-routines to other formats.
the goal of "making a typographically beautiful e-book" is simply one
of many issues which can be incorporated into the conversion aspect.
so my scope _includes_ that, but it also goes _far_beyond_ that.
to the extent that gutenmark helps automate the .html conversion of
project gutenberg e-texts _and_ helps the output become _beautiful_,
i respect it, and i respect it greatly.
but i'm doing more than that. so, for my purposes, it's not enough.
and since ron isn't maintaining it anymore, it never will be enough...
not for me, anyway. especially since i have a rather stringent set
of requirements that i expect of any e-book viewer-program i use:
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http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu...t=2004-01-08,3
review my list, and observe that a web-browser falls laughably short.
if gutenmark is good for _you_ and your purposes, i'm happy for you,
and i have absolutely no desire to upset your applecart of happiness...
or if you prefer to use indesign, or word, or whatever, to make _your_
e-books beautiful, i laud you for bringing some beauty into the world...
-bowerbird