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Re: Excentrique e-text

From: Norm Wolcott <nwolcott2ster~at~gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:28:33 -0400
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

I guess this project has now been overtaken. However I would like to add
that there are programs for stripping html to text which retain italics and
centering for example by preserving the <i> tags or converting them to some
other character. HTMSTRIP is an old one, I am sure there are others.

On 10/10/06, Zvi Har'El <rl~at~math.technion.ac.il> wrote:
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> The Jules Verne Virtyal Libraru now has the "Le testament d'un
> excentrique" in
> both PDF and DOC forms, as contributed by Joseph Devouge-Ruvira,
> <josephdevougeruvira~at~noos.fr>. The URLs are
> http://jv.gilead.org.il/jo/Le%20testament%20d%E2%80%99un%20excentrique.pdf
> and
> http://jv.gilead.org.il/jo/Le%20testament%20d%E2%80%99un%20excentrique.doc
> repectively. I am now in the process of converting these to HTML, which
> will
> be ready in a few days.
> The URL will be
> http://jv.gilead.org.il/jo/Le%20testament%20d%E2%80%99un%20excentrique/
>
> Best,
>
> Zvi.
>
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:06:04 +0200, Jan Rychlík wrote about "Re:
> Excentrique e-text":
> > > I assume there is s ome way of inidicating paragraphs. If you have rtf
> file
> > > change par to par par and save as text. I can do it for your if
> necessary.
> >
> > Well, the problem is that there are words in italics and some contered
> texts in the rtf and that format would be lost if saved as text. Thus that
> the HTML format would be the best.
> >
> > Still, it is necessary to run the text through the French spell-check
> before final formating.
> >
> > Sincerely
> >
> > Jan
> >
> > >
> > > nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jan Rychlík" <jan.rychlik~at~seznam.cz>
> > > To: <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
> > > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 7:14 PM
> > > Subject: Excentrique e-text
> > >
> > >
> > > > Dear friands,
> > > >
> > > > I've scanned one of the few Verne works not available in e-text, the
> late
> > > masterpiece Testament d'un excentrique. There are two problems,
> however,
> > > that have to be solved before the text is released in the JV Virtual
> > > Library.
> > > >
> > > > 1) I don't have a French spell-check. I've already corrected the OCR
> typos
> > > I had known about or discovered subsequently (and they were not
> numerous,
> > > since the copy was good), but it is necessary to check it in a more
> > > sophisticated way.
> > > >
> > > > 2) Since the paragraphs of the text are not divided with blank
> lines, it
> > > is not convenient to put it on web as a TXT file. But I don't have a
> HTML
> > > editor that can tabulate the parapgraphs.
> > > >
> > > > Therefore I would like to ask if some of the participant to the
> Forum is
> > > able and willing to run the text through the spell-check and to edit
> it into
> > > HTML. If so, I will send him the text as a RTF or TXT file.
> > > >
> > > > Sincerely
> > > >
> > > > Jan Rychlik
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
> --
> Dr. Zvi Har'El mailto:rl~at~math.technion.ac.il Department of
> Mathematics
> tel:+972-54-4227607 icq:179294841 Technion - Israel Institute of
> Technology
> fax:+972-4-8293388 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)
> Tuesday, 19 Tishri 5767, 10 October 2006,
> 10:39PM
>

-- 
Norman Wolcott, nwolcott2 at post.harvard.edu

Received on Fri 13 Oct 2006 - 02:28:43 IST

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