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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=matijs@R2JNET.COM href="mailto:matijs@R2JNET.COM">Matijs</A> </DIV></DIV>
<DIV>Some thoughts on all this Net Project stuff:<BR><BR>Going through the rules
item by item would probably lead to chaos, if<BR>there is no plan beforehand on
what 'we' want changed. Whether we all<BR>want the same things changed is
another matter. It might be more<BR>worthwile, as a start, to just keep the
existing rules, updated with the<BR>published errata, corrected spelling, and
clarifications where needed.<BR>Any house rules and additions would then be up
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I agree that an item-by-item congress would be
difficult to manage. I still think it's worthwhile, if for nothing else
than to flesh out the errata.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>As Wout has pointed out, this is pretty much what our group has
been<BR>doing for the past few years (yep, it's a slow process). The sources
are<BR>all human-readable. They were in LaTeX, to allow postscript or
printed<BR>versions to be generated. (No, I don't consider
PostScript<BR>human-readable, at the moment). Recently, I've converted them to
XML,<BR>and now both LaTeX and HTML versions can be generated from that.
We<BR>decided on XML to ensure that the layout can be changed at will.
If,<BR>e.g., tables are produced directly in EPS format, this would be,
IMHO,<BR>very hard to do. Also, the XML encodes all versions we would want
to<BR>produce: An exact copy of the original books, a version with errata,
and<BR>two versions with additions and house rules.<BR><BR>Matijs.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, what you're saying is that a full copy of the
basic rules already exists in a digital format, untampered with from the
original? Could you possibly send -me- a copy?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David</FONT></DIV>
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