[PSUBS-MAILIST] Intro & Manned Submersibles

[Raymond Marcil <marcilr@rockhounding.net>]

Hi,

I'm been a solid lurker on the PSUBS mailing list for many years. I got 
a copy of Busby's Manned Submersibles from Doug Farrow (many thanks!) 
and have thoroughly enjoyed it. I took note of Jorge Lourenco's work in 
scanning the entire volume and putting it online. For some reason, 
mostly my own personnel satisfaction, I refactored Jorge's work. I 
gutted the MS tags (sorry Jorge I'm a confessed Linux zealot), rebuilt 
the table of contents, finished the subject index, improved navigation, 
and generally fixed things up. The pages are still jpeg rasters, I 
didn't have to stomach to OCR them. For the individual pages I wrote a 
short bash script which generates an XML file for each page for each 
existing jpeg image. The XML files are then ripped using an XSL 
stylesheet into HTML wrappers. I used a similar trick with the subject 
index. I entered all the index data manually into XML data files. This 
took awhile, needless to say.

Anyway, Please check out: http://www.rockhounding.net/busby/

My web servers up speed isn't all that great but if you'd like to mirror 
the /busby directory structure please have at it. I will leave this up 
indefinately. If you see gross typos, fixes, or improvements to be made 
please let me know. I use a lot of stylesheet tags so it is best viewed 
with a modern web browser. I used Mozilla 1.3 while developing it.

Fellow PSUBers enjoy!


Raymond Marcil
Anchorage, Alaska.