GutenMark, a Project Gutenberg markup program

GutenMark Software Change Log
Attractively formatting Project Gutenberg texts

11/02/01. [20011102 snapshot.] This is the first version made available online. It should be quite useful, but it is certainly a very preliminary version.
11/09/01. Constructs like " - ", "--", "---", "----", and so on, are now converted to appropriate combinations of m-dashes and n-dashes. These look great when the HTML is converted to postscript or PDF, but don't render well in any of the browsers I've tried. Therefore, a command-line option (--no-mdash) has been added that can turn this conversion off.
11/12/01. Now removes the Project Gutenberg file header (and file footer) by default, in order to conform to the requirements described in the Project Gutenberg header itself. However, the header (and footer) can be retained by means of a command-line option (--yes-header).
11/13/01. [20011113 snapshot.] Added "smart quotes".
11/19/01. Fixed a bug in which things like "--" at the end of a line of the input text-file were converted to "-". Added a notification at the top of the output file that the text had been converted by GutenMark. Added a preliminary form of handling all-caps italicizing based on contextual clues within the text file.
11/22/01. Parsing of the configuration file and reading of the wordlists/namelists has been added, along with a related "--profile" command-line switch. Added a '--debug' command-line switch, which causes a logfile (GutenMark.log) to be created. The logfile has many potential uses, but right now it lists the wordlists/namelists used, and shows how each word in the wordlist generated from the etext relates to the words in them.
11/23/01. Wordlist/namelist extension to the purely internal handling of ALL-CAPS capitalization has been added, and some bugs fixed. A preliminary form of automatically italicizing foreign words by means of the wordlists has been added.
11/25/01. Foreign italicizing now pretty acceptable. '--no-foreign' command-line switch added to turn off the foreign italicizing. Restoration of 8-bit ASCII (diacritical marks) in 7-bit ASCII etext now implemented, along with the '--no-diacritical' command-line switch. Embedded GutenMark disclaimer improved. Detection of verse now slightly modified to reduce the probability of falsely detecting dialog as verse. (Hopefully, real verse detection wasn't broken by this!)
11/26/01. Experimental '--latex' command-line switch added.
12/01/01. [20011201 snapshot.] Fixed various bugs that became apparently only in running the Win32 and BSD-based versions. Added regression testing to the build process.