Still NO PBB
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Matthew C Jones said:Richard DeRuiter said:
As far as I know Builder-Builder was a tool designed by John McComb to make using the PBB easier. It could not be used in place of the PBB tool to compile PBB's.
That is not my understanding of it. I have the program but never tried to use it. Maybe Thomas will confirm??
John's program was indeed a tool to help you get the "source code" right so that PBB-Builder could then construct the best PBB possible. It did not compile PBB's it took raw text or html (or thml from CCEL) and tidied it up and made inserting milestones easier etc...
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Thomas Black said:
It did not compile PBB's it took raw text
Well there goes my conspiracy theory for the big oil companies buying up patents to 100mpg carburetors and PBB authoring software...........
No reason for John's program to exist without the PBB compiler software.
[:P] So I guess I am right on one out of three points: there will be no more Libronix PBBs.
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Guess maybe I should have stipulated, "was I missing something besides all the arguments stated here and in the other forum threads concerning PBB?"
Richard and Thomas seem to have addressed everything better than I could have probably thought it.
And hate to be the bearer of bad news for Matthew's one remaining argument but: my PBB in L3 still works (at least, until I post this response) even though the last license renewal has long since expired. And for those (like myself) who kept a copy of the setup program for John McComb's module to work with the PBB add-in, some PBBs can still be made - admittedly, not in L4, which I recognize is at the heart of all this frustration - including my own.
Best thing I can suggest is for us to focus our energies against our common adversary (which is not Matthew Jones or Logos, btw) and pray that our patience will soon be rewarded with PBB for L4.
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Matthew C Jones said:
there goes my conspiracy theory for the big oil companies buying up patents to 100mpg carburetors
(Off Topic: I knew someone that personally (not heresay) bought a new midsixties pickup. Everything was fine until they took it on a vacation, they thought at first that the fuel gage was faulty. So they continued to fill up the tank and check the mileage. Most men know what kind of gas mileage those full size trucks got in those days. A few months went by and they were contacted by a representative of the company offering them a new truck in the place of theirs. They refused and eventually were offered some cash and a new truck. They still refused and they let it go. The story was that that truck had an experimental carburetor and intake manifold at the least. Their reasoning was why accept a new truck that only got a percentage of the fuel mileage that theirs did. I can't remember now exactly what the gas mileage was, but it was in the neighborhood of thirty miles to the gallon or perhaps slightly less.)
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Rusty Davidson said:
And hate to be the bearer of bad news for Matthew's one remaining argument but: my PBB in L3 still works (at least, until I post this response) even though the last license renewal has long since expired
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(We are talking about authoring, not the reader, correct? Don't answer me if you can actually still write PBBs. We don't want to call attention to it and cause the demise of your clandestine book publishing. [:-*] )
All I ask for in Logos 4 is a venue for FREE access to works offered under the grace principle to poor users and others not being considered in CP or Pre-Pub channels. (Anabaptist, Restoration Movement, and other small fish in the big sea...)
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Oh...sure... that is what I meant! [;)]
I think it is reasonable to hope Logos would work work something out on that point. At the very least, maybe they would let some of us put a 'company' together that would come alongside these smaller fish and publish them for little or no cost![:D]
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