i18n@... wrote:

> Which makes for an interesting contrast with your case where the work
> was (apparently) funded by the publisher with an eye on the direct
> bottom line. I wonder if Adobe might be interested in assisting you
> somehow to make an updated version of WWS? It might be a feather in
> their cap to be able to re-typeset it, and learn about the issues
> involved for rarer languages. And you would probably be funded for a
> good long time to complete the task if it came to pass. It would surely
> be a very cool project!
>
> Even if your original publisher is not interested, I can imagine that a
> publisher like O'Reilly, which published Lunde, might be. Even if the
> text wasn't changed to deal with computer issues at all, which are
> O'Reilly's forte', it might still find a broader audience among
> O'Reilly's fiercely devoted readers, which would be another benefit to you.

That would be nice indeed, but OUP would have no interest in giving up a
book that continues to sell regularly.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...