[rogue_ronin]

Originally Posted by pepak

It does make sense, but seems a bit too detailed to me. It may be interesting, but:
- the book should never leave your computer in the intermediate stages
- after version 1.00, most of the changes will be along the lines of "fixed typo on page 123 line 15".

Your analysis of my words is correct, but I might release earlier -- some of the sources I don't have, so I cannot go past 0.80 on that scale, yet there's no reason to keep them locked up on my hard drive. I should probably reword as follows:

   0.10 Initial Conversion
   0.20 Cover and Frontispiece
   0.30 Sections, Chapters and TOC
   0.40 Endnotes and/or Blockquotes
   0.50 Initial Spellcheck
   0.60 Mdashes and Hyphens and Ellipses
   0.70 Italics, Bold, and Pre-Formatted Text
   0.80 Reading Proof
   0.90 Checked Against Canonical Source
   1.00 Final Version -- Optimal
 1.00+ Minor Error Corrections

I think that including it would suggest to someone how to add value and version it consistently. I can think of arguments for releasing at 0.50 and 0.60 as well.

Personally, I prefer the "no-clue" approach. If someone wants to see the clues, he can easily do that (for all books at one stroke) by modifying CSS, e.g.

h1.title:before { content: "Title: "; }

You've got me there, I can't follow you yet -- just starting to get into the CSS.

If you use a proper tagging, hiding all "clues" would be even easier:

.clue { display: none; }

I assume you mean to put the "clues" into a special container. I'm just thinking to put it into a comment. Could you explain more fully?

Thanks as always for your insightful comments,

m a r

ps: did you start your regex thread?