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Re: Jules Verne à The Electronic Library Foundation

From: Norm Wolcott <nwolcott~at~kreative.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:58:16 -0400
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

It appears they are trying to get funding for cribbing other people's work
and adding some red color to the printing.
-----Original Message-----
From: Zvi Har'El <rl~at~math.technion.ac.il>
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>
Date: Sunday, April 11, 1999 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: Jules Verne à The Electronic Library Foundation


>On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Champoux Frederic wrote:
>
>> J'aimerais porter à l'attention des membres du forum un site sur lequel
je
>> suis tombé : The Electronic Library Foundation. Il contient quelques
>> textes en ligne d'auteurs reconnus. Si je vous en parle, c'est parce que
>> l'on retrouve huit textes de Jules Verne (tous en anglais; deux sont
aussi
>> disponibles en français).
>
>ELF presentation is quite nice. However, the texts are not new. As the
crits
>page states, "The texts are from the Gutenberg Project, except for De La
Terre
>A La Lune, from ABU. " These texts may also be found, in their original
ascii
>format, as well as in an edited HTML form, in Jules Verne Virtual Library,
><http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/JulesVerne/works.html>. The HTML
editing
>also corrected various errors in the ascii format, e.g., non matching
double
>quotes, restores the original italization, and gives credit to the original
>translators. (Only two of the Gutenberg English texts have marking for
>italization. ELF still has underscores in its rendition of "Off on a
Comet",
>and it uses the unmarked version of "From the Earth to the Moon", so it has
no
>italization in its Gutenbengerg-originated texts).
>--
>Dr. Zvi Har'El <rl~at~math.technion.ac.il> Department of
Mathematics
>+972-4-8294094(Phone) Technion - Israel Institute of
Technology
>+972-4-8324654(FAX) http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/ Haifa 32000,
ISRAEL
>``If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all.''--Thumper
(1942)
>
>
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