Why use GutenMark rather than another text-to-html markup utility?
Although GutenMark is a text-to-html markup tool, it is not a general-purpose utility. It is designed to correct the deficiencies of books that are in plain-vanilla ASCII format, and (specifically) Project Gutenberg etexts. The goal is 100% automatic publishable-quality markup. In other words, to produce books that look as if they had been published. General-purpose tools are not really suited for this, but it doesn’t hurt to try them. Let me know if any of them do a really good job, and I’ll take a look at them. Here are some samples from the most promising general-purpose text-to-HTML and text-to-PDF tools I’ve found. To get an apples-to-apples comparison, all samples have been converted to PDF, using the Times font. (In viewing them, ignore things like goofed-up page headings, because these are my fault from not wanting to spend a lot of time figuring the tools out.) Remember: No manual markup or editing has taken place. • GutenMark sample: 48K. • txt2html sample: 47K. • txt2htm sam
