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Subject: Re: The Book Problem, Open Book Format proposal, Request for comments.

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 11:52:28 03/03/06

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On March 03, 2006 at 13:59:27, Jay Urbanski wrote:

>All of these have their shortcomings, so my proposal is the establishment of an
>open book format.

Absolutely, such an open book format would be very useful.

>Would an existing format like Polyglot be a good starting point?

Yes, the PolyGlot book format would serve well as a starting point.  There
is one minor problem: PolyGlot is a GPL program, and the actual PolyGlot
book code cannot be used by other programs unless these programs are
also released under the GPL.  This isn't a problem to me (my program
already is GPLed), but it would be unacceptable for most authors.  This isn't
a big problem, though.  It wouldn't be terribly hard to write code for creating
and using books in the PolyGlot format without using any actual code from
PolyGlot.

Tord



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