Still sick. But it feels like it’s going away. I hope.

I volunteered today to create a site for Project Gutenberg programmers. I’ll maintain it till I leave in August. The vision right now is that it’ll have information on all PG-related projects (software, that is) and a wishlist of things to be done. And I’ll probably also dig up related links, on OCR theory for example. The site will be hosted elsewhere, since it needs to be maintained while I’m gone, but I’ll mirror it here, of course.

I’ve spent an hour or so this evening working on the layout for the Project Gutenberg Programmer’s Page. I wanted to get a simple two-column layout, with the left column a menu flush left and running from the top of the browser window down to the bottom, and the right column the content. Simple enough, right? Well, CSS doesn’t seem to want to be that simple. Either it just isn’t nice enough to do what I want, or else I don’t know how to do it. Probably the latter. I’m having trouble deciding on a layout. I entertained the thought of a 3-column fluid layout, but that doesn’t really fit. Simple is better. The cleaner, the better. Having established what is better, the trick is accomplishing that. CSS is being rather bothersome. I know what I want, but I can’t get what I want because CSS doesn’t want to play along. That’s probably because I’m still not sure if I want the layout to be fluid (like Blank Slate’s) or more rigid. It’s getting late, so I’m going to sleep on it. As far as the other projects are coming, The Ball and the Cross is making slow progress and I certainly won’t have it done by Saturday (which was the original plan). I still have 100 pages left to type in (out of an original 254). Typing books in is tedious. I haven’t worked on Proofread much at all lately. Now that I’m feeling well enough to work, I’ll start on it soon. At the moment the PGPP takes precedence, however.