Welcome to the LIBREria HTML Rendering Project.
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LIBREria.pl is a Perl script designed to convert text files, primarily Project Gutenberg
text files, to pretty and fully themeable HTML. The script separates
book chapters into independent files in a directory with the book title
and generates a table of contents. It also separates and formats the
legal information which accompanies Project Gutenberg eTexts.
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Originally, the script was designed to make Gutenberg eTexts available
on a PDA, but the generated files are also easily readable on any web
browser at any screen resolution. They can even be read on a phone
(read: P800 . . . and now my A780). In fact, this website is now generated from a derivative of the LIBREria script.
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A second goal of the project was to make the HTML files useful for
referencing and other more scholarly needs. It adds anchor tags to and
numbers each paragraph so that people discussing or referencing the book
in question may link to any specific paragraph in the book.
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In the future, perhaps a small, mobile, web based, client side indexing
engine might be created for greater ease in finding interesting
passages in the chapter files. A GUI interface is also planned so that
grandma can post her own library on the internet if she so wishes.
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