[greenstone-users] Text preparation
| From | Julian Fox |
| Date | Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:51:39 +0100 |
| Subject | [greenstone-users] Text preparation |
| Hi there,
Since I'm usually asking others for solutions, (and will be continuing to do so!) I thought I should contribute a little experience that might help others: text preparation of a quite tricky kind done for Greenstone with asciidoc. I have had to work with historical texts that have been annotated - hence line endings (numbered every 5 lines to help) are crucial - and these were available to me in html, but the html didn't respect line endings, just produced normal paragraph blocks. Whoever did the job had simply used hyperlinks to another set of notes kept in another folder, to make reference to items in various lines. I found that Greenstone didn't like those links, and left me unable to reproduce all the critical apparatus as one might have it on a printed page - perhaps I could have overcome that through Greenstone had I known how but I didn't! Instead, I have prepared the texts using asciidoc markup (which is almost not markup, it's so simple), converted them easily to xhtml and have found that G'stone abides by the result in its conversion and gives me just what I want as an end result. Without going into the particulars, I simply make the point that this approach has worked for me, so it might work work for others who have to pay particular attention to tricky text presentation details. It's very useful to have a toolchain that works without having to be too skilled about it :-) Julian | |