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Mar 2003 Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw [Shaw #23][pygmlxxx.xxx] 3825
Mar 2003 The Lamp of Fate, Margaret Pedler [Pedler #2][lmpftxxx.xxx] 3824
Mar 2003 Thelma, by Marie Corelli [thlmaxxx.xxx] 3823
Mar 2003 Balzac, Frederick Lawton [balzaxxx.xxx] 3822
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Mar 2003 The Euahlayi Tribe, Langloh Parker [tetasxxx.xxx] 3819
[Title: The Euahlayi Tribe--A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia] Mar 2003
By Reef and Palm, Louis Becke [breepxxx.xxx] 3818 Mar 2003
To Let, by John Galsworthy [John Galsworthy #35][toltgxxx.xxx] 3817 Mar 2003
The Witch of Prague, by F. Marion Crawford [twoprxxx.xxx] 3816
Mar 2003 Rolling Stones, by O. Henry [O Hentry #13][rllstxxx.xxx] 3815
Mar 2003 Robert Louis Stevenson, by E. Blantyre Simpson [rlstvxxx.xxx] 3814
Mar 2003 The Lady Of Blossholme, by H. Rider Haggard[HRH35][blshlxxx.xxx] 3813
Mar 2003 The Mirrors of Washington, by Anonymous [tmrowxxx.xxx] 3812
[Author: Clinton W. Gilbert] Mar 2003 The Star of Gettysburg, Joseph A.
Altsheler [#3][tsgttxxx.xxx] 3811
Mar 2003 The Man-eaters of Tsavo, by J. H. Patterson [tsavoxxx.xxx] 3810
[Title: The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures] Mar 2003 The
Master of the World, Jules Verne [Verne #19][thmstxxx.xxx] 3809 Mar 2003
Robur
the Conqueror, Jules Verne [Verne #18][?robcxxx.xxx] 3808 Mar 2003
Different Forms of Flowers, by Charles Darwin #19][dfmflxxx.xxx] 3807 [Title:
The Different Forms Of Flowers On Plants Of The Same Species] Mar 2003 A Modern
Cinderella, by Louisa May Alcott[LMA #10][mdcndxxx.xxx] 3806
Contains:
A Modern Cinderella: or The Little Old Shoe
Debby's Debut
Brothers
Nelly's Hospital
Mar 2003 The Vultures, by Henry Seton Merriman [vltrsxxx.xxx] 3805
Mar 2003 Pierre And Jean, by Guy de Maupassant [G de M #19][pandjxxx.xxx] 3804
Mar 2003 File No. 113, by Emile Gaboriau[Emile Gaboriau#10][no113xxx.xxx] 3803
Mar 2003 The Widow Lerouge, by Emile Gaboriau [Gaboriau #9][lergexxx.xxx] 3802
[Alternate Title: The Lerouge Case] Mar 2003 Napoleon And Blucher, by Louise
Muhlbach [LM #9][nplblxxx.xxx] 3801 [Variant spellings: Louisa, Louise, Luise
Muhlbach; and Luise von Muhlbach]
Feb 2003 The Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza [Spinoza #11][ethicxxx.xxx] 3800
[Full Latin Title: Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata] Feb 2003 Landholding
In England, by Joseph Fisher[Fisher#2][lndiexxx.xxx] 3799 Feb 2003
Reminiscences
of Captain Gronow, by Captain Gronow[grnowxxx.xxx] 3798 [Author: Captain Rees
Howell Gronow] Feb 2003 In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells[Wells
#21][incomxxx.xxx] 3797 Feb 2003 Rilla of Ingleside, by Lucy Maud
Montgomery[LMM#7][rillaxxx.xxx] 3796
Feb 2003 Under the Lilacs, by Louisa May Alcott [Alcott #9 [ullcsxxx.xxx] 3795
Feb 2003 L. Annaeus Seneca On Benefits, by Aubrey Stewart [bnftsxxx.xxx] 3794
Feb 2003 Joseph II. and His Court, by L. Muhlbach [LM #8][j2ahcxxx.xxx] 3793
Feb 2003 Capitola The Madcap, by Emma D. E. N. Southworth [mdcapxxx.xxx] 3792
Feb 2003 The Reign Of Law, by James Lane Allen [rolawxxx.xxx] 3791
Feb 2003 Major Barbara, George Bernard Shaw[G. B. Shaw #22][mjbrbxxx.xxx] 3790
Feb 2003 Preface to Major Barbara, George Bernard Shaw[#21][pmbrbxxx.xxx] 3789
Feb 2003 Haydn, by J. Cuthbert Hadden [Master Musicians] [hhmmsxxx.xxx] 3788
Feb 2003 Nature And Art, by Mrs. [Elizabeth] Inchbald [naartxxx.xxx] 3787
Feb 2003 Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley[hmlynxxx.xxx] 3786
Feb 2003 In The Reign Of Terror, by G. A. Henty [Henty #4][reterxxx.xxx] 3785
Feb 2003 The Sheridan Road Mystery by Paul and Mabel Thorne[shrdnxxx.xxx] 3784
Feb 2003 Mother, by Maxim Gorky [Maxim Gorky PG eBook #4][mthrgxxx.xxx] 3783
Feb 2003 Huntingtower, John Buchan [John Buchan #7][hntngxxx.xxx] 3782
Feb 2003 The Jewel of Seven Stars, Bram Stoker [bstoker #5][thjwlxxx.xxx] 3781
Feb 2003 The King's Highway, by G.P.R. James [knghwxxx.xxx] 3780
Feb 2003 Events Culminating in The Great Conflict, Marshall[ecigcxxx.xxx] 3779
[Complete Listing: A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study
of
the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict, by Logan Marshall] Feb 2003 The
Interdependence of Literature, Georgina Curtis[ntrdpxxx.xxx] 3778 [Author:
Georgina Pell Curtis] Feb 2003 Tom Swift & His Electric Rifle, by Victor
Appleton[10tomxxx.xxx] 3777 Feb 2003 The Valley of Fear, by Arthur Conan
Doyle[Doyle29][vfearxxa.xxx] 3776 (See also: #3289) Feb 2003 Napoleon
Bonaparte, John S. C. Abbott [nplnbxxx.xxx] 3775
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THE WIRELESS, THE SEEKERS, AND THE SORTERS
A new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that 27%
of teenagers and 20-somethings are considering abandoning their home phones in
favor using only their cell phones. Overall, 21% of cell phone users of all
ages
have considered canceling their home phone service, but as of now only 3% have
actually gotten rid of their fixed-line phones. The study also found that the
tech elite consists mostly of 30-somethings who spend an average of $169 a
month
on information goods. Study author John Horrigan points out as a new paradox
the fact that those who consume more information technology are the least
likely
to report feeling overwhelmed by the volume of information: "They know how to
sort through that." (Washington Post 24 Nov 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8674-2003Nov23.html
VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOL
The Michigan Virtual High School program has become the second-largest such
program in the country, with more than 7,200 student enrollments. The program
allows students to take courses over the Internet to earn credit for a variety
of classes not offered in their own schools. One student in the program says:
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classroom
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of
13 states with the program, Florida has the highest enrollment, with an
expected
20,000 student enrollments this school year. (AP/USA Today 23 Nov 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2003-11-23-virtual-school
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PRAGUE: WHERE IT'S AT, INFORMATION-WISE
The Czech Republic is being increasingly seen by global corporations as an
excellent location for their customer call centers as well as back-office
and IT operations. DHL, the logistics group, will eventually be employing
1,000 people at a data center in Prague to track shipments, customer queries
and
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a five-fold increase in employees in Prague over the next five years, to 1,500
employees. The Los Angeles Times reports that whereas previously service
projects went to cheaper destinations such as India and the Philippines,
Western
companies now see central Europe as a viable alternative because it is closer
in
culture and time zone to companies' headquarters, and because it has a
better-qualified workforce, with a large pool of expatriates who can speak
multiple languages. (Los Angeles Times 24 Nov 2003)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-ft-czech24nov24,1,6399557.story?coll=la
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CELLPHONE SWITCHING
About a hundred thousand cellphone users changed their wireless service
carriers yesterday, taking advantage of a new federal rule allowing
consumers to switch without penalty. However, the number of people making
the switch was far smaller than what had been predicted, and a Consumers
Union spokesperson said, "Our guess is today people may be taking it kind of
slow." People are now allowed to keep their phone numbers when they switch
wireless carriers or when they convert from fixed-line to wireless phone
service. (San Jose Mercury News 25 Nov 2003)
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ANTI-SPAM BILL PASSES IN HOUSE, SENATE
The Senate passed a bill to curb junk commercial e-mail by voice vote on
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392 to 5. President Bush is expected to sign the legislation (known as the
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CA's Ian Hameroff said that his company remains focused on corporate
customers but that threats increasingly come from home users. CA's
announcement sent the stock prices of competing antivirus companies
falling. Symantec's stock dropped seven percent, while that of Network
Associates fell five percent. At least one analyst said the reaction
was excessive, however. Donovan Gow of American Technology Research
noted that CA only holds six percent of the antivirus market worldwide
and just one percent of the consumer market. Hameroff said CA's
motivation in offering the software for free "was not to erode the
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IF WE HAD A BOOMING ECONOMY IN THE 90'S, THEN WHY DID
THE BANKRUPTCY RATE DOUBLE IN THE LAST 10 YEARS?
Personal bankruptcies in the U.S. have doubled over
the past 10 years, pretty consistently, at a yearly
rate of increase of 7%. This was true even during
the major economic boom period of the 1990s, and it
has recently increased to 8%, which means that at
the rate bankruptcies are doubling every 9 years.
According to a Harvard study, the major reason is
that the economic boom has only been paying any
returns to the upper crust, while the daily jobs
have been being shipped overseas, or merely just
downsized out of existence.
This has been getting media coverage only in the
off peak programs off the major media pathways.
***
Speaking of our major television anchors last week:
"Do you ever wonder why Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings
and even Jim Lehrer started reading off GDP statistics instead
of GNP numbers?"
Someone pointed out that the three major TV anchors are each
about twice as old as the US median age of 33. . . .
On the average they started as news anchors when Reagan was
just starting his first administration.
Name Born Ages Anchor
Dan Rather 1931 72 and Anchor since 1981
Tom Brokaw 1940 63 and Anchor since 1982
Peter Jennings 1938 65 and Anchor since 1983
Jim Lehrer 1934 69 and Anchor since 1975
==========================================================
Average 1936 67 and Anchor since 1980
I've noticed that each of them is stuttering more now, but
I'm sure they'll all try to make it through the upcoming
presidential election, but their average age will be 72
by the one after that, and I'll bet they all go within
about the same number of years as they were hired. . . .
The real question is: who will replace them? And why?
What will be the criteria for the new news anchors?
If the new ones start today and are the same age as
these were when they started anchoring, they will
each have been born at an average date of 1959. . . .
It looks as if we will never have an era of anchors
who were developing in the 50's and 60's. . . .
We could go straight from those who developed in
the Great Depression and WWII, those we have now,
to those who came from the MBA and disco generation.
***
"NO BLOOD FOR DRUGS???"
Apparently Vioxx is over $100 a month in the U.S.
and $35 a month in Canada.
$27B in tax dollars spent on basic research in
the U.S. dollars, much of which benefits the
pharmaceutical industry, which they not only
don't pay for, but they don't pay tax dollars
on their own research or advertizing; says the
Chairman of the House Science Committee. This
means the U.S. taxpayers pay three subsidies
to the pharmaceutical industry:
1. By paying so much more for their products.
2. By paying for most of the $27 of research above.
3. Oof, sorry, I forgot the third one. . . .
***
KIDS RESTRAINTS MANDATED TO AGE 8 IN ILLINOIS
Kids who had graduated from car seats at age 5
are going back into their padded restraints
for another 3 years in Illinois.
I once did some research that indicated the
odds of a child being saved by one of these
was something quite minimal. . .way under 1%.
I don't like the idea of creating industries
mandated by goverment to protect against the
odds things that are less than 1% that takes
a billion dollars out of our pockets to give
it to someone such as Cosco, whose product
was denounced this week by the major media
as allowing kids to be tossed out onto the
highway in collisions as slow as 30 MPH.
I wonder if kids raised in car seats are
going to be severely underdeveloped.
***
My best friend just sent me this reply:
"Maximum Security is ALWAYS a Prison."
She works at a school where NO incidents
have EVER been reported, yet they will be
going to a high security system next spring
in which everyone has to have a badge on
and visible at all times, keyless entry
that works like a times bank vault. . .
we're just waiting for the schood day
when no one can get in at all. . . .
Of course, it does nothing to stop anyone
who just throws bricks through the window
and climbs in. . . .
***
Last, but not least. . .
ECONOMIC WARFARE ON THE MEDICAL FRONT
1. Americans have been going to Canada
to buy their prescription drugs for half
as much as they pay here in the U.S.
2. There are those who claim these drugs
are inferior to those bought in the U.S.
3. These are the same drugs, often from
the same production lots they buy here,
filled from the same U.S. prescriptions.
4. The drug companies nearly lobbied in
a law that would prevent this, or ordering
from Canadian drug stores over the Internet,
the phone, etc.
5. Finally, the drug companies have stopped
or reduced shipping to Canadian drug stores
they suspect are selling to Americans.
6. In response, the Illinois Governor,
Rod Blagojievich has said he will eliminate
as many of the products of these companies
as possible from the preferred list for
Illinois drug purchases.
7. Those of you who have been reading this
Newsletter for some time may recall that I
predicted some kind of economic warfare on
the medical front.
It's not just free things like Naptster they
want to shut down, these drugs were paid for,
by all parties concerned. It's just that the
U.S. wants to allow for non-competition to a
degree that even prevents the re-importation
of things made in the U.S.
Apparently some 60% of the price paid by U.S.
citizens for many prescriptions goes to the
bottom line, leaving only 40% to pay for the
research, advertising and salaries. . . . I
heard that the drug companies are spending
twice as much on advertising than research
since the onslaught of TV ads that bypass
doctors and present products directly to
the public [which used to be illegal].
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Statistical Review
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It took us from 1971 to 2002 to produce our FIRST 3653 eBooks!!!
That's 46 WEEKS as Compared to ~31 YEARS!!!
With 10,396 eBooks online as of November 19, 2003 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.96 from each book,
for Project Gutenberg to have currently given away $1,000,000,000,000
[One Trillion Dollars] in books.
100,000,000 readers is only about 1.5% of the world's population!
This "cost" is down from about $1.57 when we had 6297 eBooks A Year Ago
Can you imagine 10,000 books each costing $.61 less a year later???
Or. . .would this say it better?
Can you imagine 10,000 books each costing 1/3 less a year later???
At 10,396 eBooks in 32 Years and 4.50 Months We Averaged
321 Per Year [We do more per than that month these days!]
27 Per Month
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From Newsscan:
[I Know People Like This!!!]
HELP! I'M BEING HELD PRISONER BY MY TIVO!
TiVo -- the personal video recorder that cleverly records programs all day
on its hard drive based on the preferences of owners -- is being blamed for
turning otherwise-casual TV watchers into slaves shackled to their sofas,
unable to keep up with the flood of their favorite shows. Fanatical TiVo
users complain that their hard drives -- which come in either 40-hour or
80-hour sizes -- quickly fill up with programs they can't bear to delete,
but don't have time to watch. "For something that is supposed to be
relaxing and unwinding at the end of the day, you (think), 'Wow! I have a
lot of shows to watch,'" says Scott Bedard, technology director at an
online media company in San Francisco. Kevin Coto, a financial systems
consultant in New York, can relate: "I get to the point now where I skip
going to the gym so I can keep up with watching 'Dawson's Creek' reruns,"
which are broadcast for two hours each day. "I look forward to when they
end so I won't be so stressed." Nevertheless, most TiVo aficionados can't
imagine life without their favorite device. "If the box was broken I would
have to go out and buy a new one right away. I can't see myself going a
week without it," says Coto. (Reuters 11 Nov 2003)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=RRJZODEBIBAGGCRBAE0CFFA?type
=technologyNews&storyID=3800365
[Will 100's of Millions of Present Day TVs End Up In Our Landfills?]
'MUST CARRY'? MAYBE NOT
The Federal Communications Commission plans to reject a request by TV
broadcasters to force cable companies to show both digital and analog
versions of network programs to expand the television audience to viewers
who own new high-definition TV sets. Cable companies oppose a so-called dual
"must-carry" requirement because it would force them to duplicate their
current network programming, and perhaps squeez out other cable channels.
All five FCC commissioners have decided individually to deny the
broadcasters' request, and Legg Mason analyst Blair Levin says,
"Commissioners seem to think there'd be too much of a burden on cable
without sufficient public benefit."
(Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times 18 Nov 2003)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-fcc18nov18,1,7938975.story?coll=la-h
eadlines-technology
FCC WANTS TO EXPAND WIRELESS TO UNDERSERVED AREAS
The Federal Communications Commission is reserving a new portion of
high-frequency spectrum for wireless Internet users to encourage the spread
of high-speed data access in rural and other underserved areas. Although
WiFi networks are in widespread use in coffee shops and hotel lobbies across
the country, the goal now is to expand high-speed data connections to
sparsely populated communities and entire neighborhoods.
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Headline News Mostly Avoided By The Major U.S. Media
GDP IS LITERALLY A DILUTED SPIN DOCTORING OF GNP
GDP = Gross Domestic Product GNP = Gross National Product
Do you ever wonder why Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings
and even Jim Lehrer started reading off GDP statistics instead
of GNP numbers?
It's just more spin doctoring to make the U.S. economy not
look as weak as it really is. I wondered about his when it
started, and downloaded much of the following:
It is literally impossible to count every single product the U.S.
makes and every single hour of labor we provide. Therefore our GNP
is only an estimate. The way the government figures GNP is to put
products and services into five major categories: consumer (C),
investment (I), government spending (G), exports (X), and imports (M).
GNP = C+I+G+X-M is the formula. We add up the first four categories,
then subtract our imports because imports, of course, are not made in
this country. Lately the U.S. has not really counted exports and imports.
The government is now just adding up C+I+G and forgetting about the
X and M. This new measure is called Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The formula is GDP=C+I+G. Notice that GDP is actually larger than GNP
because the dollar value of our imports is greater than the dollar value
of our exports. By using GDP, our economy doesn't show up as being as weak
due to the fact our imports outweigh our exports by a huge amount.
This is now simply eliminated from the news by the stroke of a gov't pen.
Try counting up just how much of the Evening News is written by such pens.
*
We noticed another one of these since writing the above:
re: the news about the U.S. economy, particularly the NON-trickling-down
of the recent economic booms to the public. You've probably all heard a
few reports that unemployment is finally down, even to the point of going
back a few months and saying, "Oops! Those were really UP. . .NOT down."
However, the previous booms, much larger and longer than at present, if
you can call that a boom, never "trickled-down" to any real improvement
in the public buying power. . .nothing in the past several decades.
One way you can tell the Spin Doctors are in total control, is that none
of the reports being issued are continuing to say "seasonally adjusted."
Obviously right now there is a serious "seasonal" boom in employment,
as all the retail outlets have hired on every possible employable person
for "only 68 more shopping days until Christmas," which obviously slants
the employment figures for October, November and December, and "Back To
School" slanted those for August and September. Once the post-holiday
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Part 2
In this week's Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter:
Smart webtools for e-book preparation and editing revisited by Thierry Alberto ...
Brand-new e-gourmet club is inviting you to the dinner next week ...
Alice made a little expedition to find out what Early English Text Society really is ...
Tomorrow is Universal Children's day, so it seems naturally to mention some works of Lewis Carroll in the Math and Poetry series ?
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2) The Distributed Proofreaders Update is coming this week together with the new tools
by Thierry Alberto
Transitional periods are often disconcerting. History reveals that people throughout the
world develop a fondness for the known and potentially familiar. While working on the
upgrade of a web site interface a couple of years ago, I was involved in a debate with
another designer over the scale of some new additions. He argued for keeping the old
designs just as they were, adding that this was sure to be the preference of the existing
audience. Then, as if to solidify his stance he said, "The only person who likes regular
change is a wet baby."
He did not win that day, but his words were tattooed upon my memory, by their charm.
I have thought about them now and again, because I do not necessarily agree with their
view. I believe that there is a certain type of individual who thrives within a transitional
environment. Granted, you will not find large crowds of such people in any one place.
By nature, such a person tends to be more at home in a small, loosely woven social cell.
I can speak for this group because I am kin. After observing and interacting with the DP
community for 9 months, I would say that here is the largest gathering of situational
nomads I have ever encountered.
Change is a constant at DP. The project is like a river which is different every time that
you wade in, transforming even as it flows around you. This dynamic nature does not
suit everyone, and after a taste or two a number of folks will move on. Among those who
have stayed with DP for a measurable time are some who would never consider leaving,
not with any lasting seriousness, anyway. It is this fair sized circle of people who are ever
in the midst of the great transformations to the project. It might be fair to say that they are
in fact the very agents of change, always at the heart of the latest upgrade, feature addition
or process innovation.
In searching for the thread to tie the weekly news with the production focus of this week,
I found myself looking into these ever turning wheels of change that have made DP the
unique success it is today. There is a loosely worded creed of sorts which is passed
around the community now and again. While it is not officially stated anywhere, it comes
very close to a standing policy. It goes more or less like, "If you see something that
clearly needs doing, take the initiative and set it in motion. Others will soon join with you
and iron out the wrinkles."
Whether this process works or not is now beyond the shadows of doubt. Distributed
Proofreaders itself is an example of this method; the follow through of an idea from one
person is today a collective endeavor of thousands. Whether it is an easy choice to
embrace such a process and remain dedicated is a topic for another column.
One example of personal initiative at DP was introduced in last week's newsletter and
will be explored a little further today. This is the development of the series of tool
programs that help automate the different stages of text processing. The people who
built these tools did not wait for approval or instructions, they saw a need and they
went to work at constructing a satisfying solution. Over time, with trial and input, they
evolved their initial efforts and continue to do so today. The exact measure of value
these programs and scripts have added to DP's output is not possible to calculate.
After you have used some of them a few times, it becomes clear that whatever the
specific measurement, this contribution has made a profound difference in the both the
degree and quality of DP's final product.
Among the most widely used tools are Steve Schulze's guiprep and guiguts, their alter
egos Winprep and Winguts; the tool suite of GutAxe; GutHammer; GutSweeper;
GutWrench, written by Bill Flis and the Re-Wrap and Indent script created by Bill
Keir. These are by no means all the tools available to assist the DP process but those
which are utilized in the Pre and Post production stages, that have been featured within
the column previously. There are many other tools which have become incorporated
into the proofing process. One is the customized proofing font, which makes it easier
on the eyes to spot less obvious errors. Another valuable assist is the transliteration
panel for Greek letters, originally created by DP's Donovan and long since incorporated
as a fixed component in the proofing interface.
In future columns we will explore each of these tools a little further. A permanent feature
for the off-line programs and scripts is presently being constructed upon the newsletter
archive site. Here, tools will be available for download to independent text developers
along with background information and extensive help files. This effort has the full support
of the tool masters, thus the archive feature should evolve into a valuable resource over time.
Here in the column we will be providing space for the developers to introduce the tools
in their own words. This week we begin our spotlight with the suite of tools created
and maintained by Bill Flis
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GUTWRENCH SUITE (Windows only)
All four programs are contained in a single .zip file, downloadable at:
http://frankfordinstitute.bravepages.com/GutWrench.htm
The programs come with documentation that explains their function in more detail. Email the
author at flis@detk.com if you have any problems or suggestions. GutAxe and GutHammer
are probably of most interest outside DP, as they are not at all DP-specific. Anyone interested
in the Visual Basic source code is welcome to it.
GutAxe
This simple program helps make rapid corrections to errors in e-texts. These include many
"Stealth Scannos" (OCR errors that will pass a spell-checker), words that are usually hyphenated
or have accents or ligatures, and mistakes in punctuation and markups. It is intended mainly as a
quick-and-dirty, time-saving, error-reducing tool, not as a replacement for other more thorough
tools, such as Gutcheck or a spell-checker.
It works much like a spell-checker: when it finds an error, it shows the context and proposes the
likely correction, asking the user to confirm. For example, if it finds the word "arid", it asks
whether this should be changed to "and" (a "Stealth Scanno", because the erroneous word "arid"
will pass a spell-checker). If it finds the string "Mrs," (with a comma), it asks whether it should
be changed to "Mrs." (with a period). Of course, many errors do not have such predictable
corrections or are too unlikely to occur (it doesn't flag "and" as possibly "arid", e.g.), and GutAxe
does not attempt to be a completely general tool. However, it flags a relatively low percentage of
"false positives" and enables the user to not only find but also correct a large number of errors in
a short time.
It is now set up to check English-language texts (with some French words). However, the errors
that it detects and the corrections it offers are all contained in external text files, which could easily
be edited to handle other languages (no re-programming needed).
GutSweeper
GutSweeper is a little time-saving tool intended to be used first in post-processing at DP. It
automatically cleans up clear-cut errors. It divides any very long lines of text (over a specified
length). It does some general cleaning up: removes trailing and double blanks, and deletes blank
lines at the bottoms of pages (before the DP-style Page Separators). A preliminary text-checking
feature insures that it will not be confused by erroneous poetry and other mark-ups.
GutWrench
This multi-purpose error-finding tool performs three kinds of functions:
1. Mapping the text. This function creates various tables concerning the text:
a) List of all characters in the file and their frequencies.
b) "Page Map" gives a brief (one-line) summary of special features (such as italic markups,
paragraphs, special characters) that appear on each page of text (between DP-style Page
Separators). This may be printed then quickly compared with the scan images to find missing
features in the text.
c) List of all hyphenated words, and occurrences of unhyphenated versions of them.
d) List of all accented words, and occurrences of unaccented versions.
e) Concordance (alphabetic list of all words, their frequencies, and point of first occurrence)
f) List of all lines of text having adjacent UPPER CASE characters (useful for checking chapter headings and finding some errors).
2. Checking the text for errors (intended as a supplement to Gutcheck):
a) Hyphens and dashes
b) Italic and bold (HTML-style) markups
c) Stealth scannos, including also optional lists of "ftealth fcannof" (old-style long "s" confused
with "f") and French and "other" (mostly a few German) stealth scannos. (These lists are all
contained in external text files, easily modified or expanded.)
d) Other assorted errors in punctuation.
3. Modifying the text:
a) Joins short lines of text (outside of poetry and other markups, and provided the result is
shorter than a specified length).
b) Deletes trailing blanks.
c) Deletes DP-style Page Separators.
d) Deletes poetry, block quote, and stet markups.
GutHammer
This is an easy-to-use text-rewrapping program. It uses a simplified version of Big_Bill's
markups (see his RewrapIndent program) to handle poetry (indented), block quotes (indented
and rewrapped), and tables (left as is). Optionally, it will simultaneously replace HTML-style
<i>italic</i> and <b>bold</b> markups with specified characters, or convert <b>bold</b> to
ALL UPPER CASE. It uses a GUI to adjust its settings (e.g., column width), but it runs
non-interactively--just a few mouse-clicks and you're done!
===========================
Next week we spotlight the tools of Steve Schulze and take a closer look at the forerunners
of today's tools; GutCheck and PRTK (Proof Reader's Tool Kit). This week is still unfolding
around us and there is much change taking place, even as I write these words. The most
prominent alterations in recent days are immediately obvious to any regular visitor to the DP
forums. In fact, it is fair to say that if you tend to the familiar and cozy, you may still be a
little startled by the depth and width of the to this week's forum transformations. While it may
seem to have occurred with the suddenness of an earthquake, the reorganization is long in
planning and implemented with the best intentions for DP's future.
The most important thing to be aware of is that nothing has been lost or removed. It may
require a little searching around, but you will find everything is still there. Several new
forums have been created, some for better organization, some to make the forums more
friendly and accessible to new members and others were added because their time had
come. Among the new additions is a tier specifically set aside for new proofers and new
forums for Project Management; Mentoring; Promotion, even a gathering place for
historical events and discussions of significance to the various DP cultures.
It may all be somewhat overwhelming at first. If so, take your time exploring and getting
accustomed to all the new avenues and interesting side destinations. Just keep in mind,
there's still proofing and content development to do! Not that the new forums will fare
much better than anything else at slowing us down. I am running out of superlatives to
relate this continuous growth in production. If October called us to reach up and stretch
to be the best that we could, November is making that expanded effort look like our
average workaday pace.
We reached 2,500 distinctive texts posted to PG in the past week, without even much of a
murmur in the forums. In November alone, 215 projects have been posted. By month's
end that number will be greater than any previous month. The same looks to be true for all
other measurements of production as quality and output continue to expand. On this course,
November shall be the finest month to date for Distributed Proofreaders, and it appears certain
that at December's end there will be great things to celebrate. The year behind us was nothing
short of wondrous from beginning to end. The year ahead is already shining with promise and
bright indications of great prosperity for world's first free and international library. If they only
knew what was in store for 2004, many book lovers would agree, change is a good thing!
Until next week...
All the best!
Thierry Alberto
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3) Newsletter news:
We are starting the new cookery club in the newsletter. See below an invitation to the perfect fall dinner by lovely club hostess Tonya Allen:
Project Gutenberg's Cookery Club
A few weeks ago we ran an article about PG's cookery book collection. Since then, still more cookbooks have been added, including the five-volume Library of Cookery; English Housewifery Exemplified In above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions for most Parts of Cookery; Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches; 365 Foreign Dishes (well, foreign from the point of view of the apparently American author); and the most recent addition, the mammoth compendium The Book of Household Management, by Isabella Beeton.
It occurred to some of us that this rich and growing collection could serve as the basis of an interactive weekly column. Each week we will present a menu, with recipes (or links to them). Our intrepid editorial staff will prepare one or more of these dishes, and will report successes, challenges, improvements, and even utter flops in the following issue of the newsletter. Now here's the interactive part: you, our readers, are invited to join the feast. Pick a recipe or two, give it a try at home, and send us your comments and ratings! All comments will be carefully collected and will be available online:
INVITATION [loosely based on Mrs. Beeton's suggestions for civilized conduct in this sphere]
The editorial staff present their compliments to their gentle readers,
and request the honour of their company
at dinner on Wednesday (or Thursday), the 26th (or 27th) of November next, depending on the publishing schedule.
No R.S.V.P. necessary. Come as you are.
An endless candlelit dining table with flexible seating awaits you in our corner of cyberspace.
Our first full menu will appear next week. Meantime, we'll whet your appetites with this starter from The Belgian Cookbook http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext05/7blgn10.txt :
GOURMANDS' MUSHROOMS
There was a man in Ghent who loved mushrooms, but he could only eat them
done in this fashion. If you said, "Monsieur, will you have them tossed
in butter?" he would roar out, "No--do you take me for a Prussian? Let me
have them properly cooked."
Melt in a pan a lump of butter the size of a tangerine orange and squeeze
on it the juice of half a lemon. The way to get a great deal of juice
from a lemon is to plunge it first of all for a few minutes, say five
minutes, in boiling water. When the butter simmers, throw in a pound of
picked small mushrooms, stir them constantly, do not let them get black.
Then in three or four minutes they are well impregnated with butter, and
the chief difficulty of the dish is over. Put the saucepan further on the
fire, let it boil for a few minutes. Take out the mushrooms, drain them,
sprinkle them with flour, moisten them with gravy, season with salt and
pepper, put them back in the butter and stir in the yolk of an egg. Add
also a little of the lemon juice that remains. While you are doing this
you must get another person to cut and toast some bread and to butter it.
Pour on to the bread the mushrooms (which are fit for the greatest saints
to eat on Fridays), and serve them very hot.
Tonya Allen
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3) Notes and Queries, Reviews and Features
Note 1:
Early English Text Society
Following a recent posting on gutvol about the EETS I decided to take
a look and see what it was. Founded by Frederick James Furnivall, with
the help of others in 1864, EETS seems to be an early prototype for
Project Gutenberg. It's aims are to bring the mass of unprinted Early
English literature within the reach of students and also to provide
sound texts that could be a source for what is now called the Oxford
English Dictionary. It continues to publish medieval English texts
today.
So what sorts of texts are we talking about? Current Publications
include The Old English Gospels, Sidrack and Bokkus, and The First
Translation of the Imitatio Christi. What??? Further investigation on
the Oxford University Press website reveals these to be very highly
regarded as texts that give a rare insigt into some of the popular
beliefs of medieval England. Sidrack and Bokkus for example, is a
previously unpublished book of knowledge, written in question and
answer form and enclosed in a framing adventure story taken from an
old French source. The archive looks like it could be a very valuable
addition to Project Gutenberg, and I understand there may be a
possibility that one of those marvellous Uber Projects at Distributed
Proofreaders could be a useful way to get these through (This is known
as a 'hint'!)
You can find out more about EETS at
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~eets/eetshome.htm
Alice Wood
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Note 2:
Math and Poetry.
The works of Lewis Carroll.
Tomorrow is the Universal children day so it seems to me as non-English person very logical to speak about Lewis Carroll in our math and poetry series. It can be started something like ? ? once upon a time there was a mathematician who?s name was Lewis Carroll ?? And this is of course all wrong ? everybody knows that there was a poet called Lewis Carroll but his name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and he was actually a mathematician ? His mind games are fascinating, even as brightly pointed out our chief-editor, a little bit too much well-known. However, here is the paradox ? how much out of more than 15 books and plentitude of other printed works, you can list in your memory right now? I bet, that not more than are submitted on Project Gutenberg ?Alice in Wonderland?, ?Through the Looking-Glass?, ?Haunting of the Snark?, ?Sylvie and Bruno? ? what else do we have in GUTINDEX ? http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext03/thgmf10.txt and the Phantasmagoria and Other Poems http://www
.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext96/fntsm10.txt. Bright and genius they are, with amusing interweaving of math and poetry inside. The highly structured formlessness of his poetry is always reminding me the water ? it suits every occasion but yet it can not be squeezed much. Zen koans are somewhat similar ? the huge mind space created by skilful nonsense. Speaking about the kids and math, my favorite math book in the childhood was A Tangled Tale with its Mad Mathesis (translated to my home language as Mad Mathemathilda ?), Her Radiance and other strange personages. You can find it on the internet http://home.earthlink.net/~lfdean/carroll/tangled/, so as usually if not to submit to PG, but at least to enjoy the reading. There is quite many other
e-texts forgotten due to the overwhelming popularity of their author, which sounds as another L.C. paradox, isn?t it? This one however is easier to solve than one of the Achilles , I think ?
List of works:
http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/pages/lewiscarroll/carrollbiblio.html
Diaries:
http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/pages/lewiscarroll/carrolldiary.html
Nursery Alice:
http://home.earthlink.net/~lfdean/carroll/nursery/
Complete stories:
http://www.bootlegbooks.com/fiction/Caroll/CompleteWorks/
What Tortoise said to Achilles:
http://www.lewiscarroll.org/achilles.html
'Achilles had overtaken the Tortoise, and had seated himself comfortably on its back.
"So you've got to the end of our race-course?" said the Tortoise. "Even though it does consist of an infinite series of distances? I thought some wiseacre or other had proved that the thing couldn't be done?"
"It can be done," said Achilles. "It has been done! Solvitur ambulando. You see the distances were constatntly diminishing: and so -"
"But if they had been constantly increasing?" the Tortoise interrupted. "How then?"
"Then I shouldn't be here," Achilles modestly replied; "and you would have got several times round the world, by this time!"
"You flatter me - flatten, I mean," said the Tortoise; "for you are a heavy weight, and no mistake! Well now, would you like to hear of a race-course, that most people fancy they can get to the end of in two or three steps, while it really consists of an infinite number of distances, each one longer than the previous one?"
"Very much indeed!" said the Grecian warrior, as he drew from his helmet (few warriors possessed pockets in those days) an enormous note-book and a pencil. "Proceed! And speak slowly, please! Short-hand isn't invented yet!"
"That beautiful First Proposition of Euclid!" the Tortoise murmured dreamily. "You admire Euclid?"
"Passionately! So far, at least, as one can admire a treatise that won't be published for some centuries to come!" ?..?
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And for the desert and entertainment let's play Doublets - the word game invented by mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson with much help of poet Lewis Carroll. Its name got transformed to the Word Ladders, Word Chains or Stepword however it's essence remained untouched since 1879, when Mr.Dodgson has published his new invention in the magazine Vanity Fair : "The rules of the Puzzle are simple enough. Two words are proposed, of the same length; and the Puzzle consists in linking these together by interposing other words, each of which shall differ from the next word in one letter only. That is to say, one letter may be changed in one of the given words, then one letter in the word so obtained, and so on, till we arrive at the other given word. The letters must not be interchanged among themselves, but each must keep to its own place. As an example, the word 'head' may be changed into 'tail' by interposing the words 'heal, teal, tell, tall'. I call the given words 'a Doublet'
, the interposed words 'Links', and the entire series 'a Chain', of which I here append an example:
Head
Heal
Teal
Tell
Tall
Tail
It is, perhaps, needless to state that it is de rigueur that the links should be English words, such as might be used in good society."
Here are a few more examples:
Make DOOR LOCK in 3 steps
DOOR
boor
book
look
LOCK
Obtain LOAN from BANK
BANK
bonk
book
look
loon
LOAN
See on the http://thinks.com/puzzles/doublets.htm for more interesting word ladders' examples. You can also try on your own:
Turn RIVER to FLOOD (suggested 11 steps)
HARD to SOFT (suggested 4 steps)
CLIMB to HILLS (suggested 8 steps)
SMALL to GREAT (suggested 9 steps)
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Thanks this time go to Brett and George for the numbers and
booklists. Alice, Thierry, Tonya, Gali, Greg, Michael, Mark and Larry
Wall. Entertainment for the editor-on-duty provided mostly by MA recordings: ?Sera una noche? and ?Naster?.
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