Re: Plain text writer?

[Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Markdown is text, just not the brand of text of PG-standards! Said that, it
would be very nice to have a reader/writer of "pgt" (PG text). It would
allow first - people to code in their own way and contribute texts to PG,
but above all, it would allow a better translation from PG texts to PDF and
ePub. Lots of translators have been written for that, including some by PG
themselves, but none of them as good as the ones in Pandoc!

Paulo Ney


On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:01 PM, David Cortesi <davecortesi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 10:43:10 AM UTC-7, Daniel Staal wrote:
>>
>> ...for their [Project Gutenberg's] purposes and
>> description Markdown *is* plain text.
>>
>
> Very possibly true. However PG is one of the oldest volunteer content
> providers (in fact, THE oldest, estab. 1971!) on the internet and my
> impression (on relatively few interactions) is they do not change anything
> quickly.
>
> New etexts are accepted to the library only after complete inspection by
> volunteer "whitewashers" who operate under detailed and strict guidelines.
> Markdown deviates in a number of ways from those guidelines. Examples: in a
> PG etext, all paragraphs are reflowed; lines of a paragraph in a markdown
> text are rarely reflowed to fill the margins. A PG block quote is shown by
> white-space indention (and reflowed), Markdown uses leading &gt's and
> doesn't reflow. A Markdown list item begins in the left margin, signalled
> by a leading asterisk; a PG  list item is indented from the margin. PG
> shows the typography of a poem or playscript using indents and newlines to
> approximate the original layout. Standard markdown does not support this at
> all; Pandoc Extended requires pipes in the left margin to preserve varying
> indention.
>
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