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The content of this site is in various presentation formats:
XML, XHTML, DjVu, and PDF. Many of the texts are in XML which was preferred over XHTML because it was designed as an open standard to describe a syntax that can be used to define elements specific to a document unlike XHTML which has fixed tag sets. It is platform independent, free from licensing restrictions, well supported and can describe the content for a particular audience or group.
 We also use DjVu files which are considerably smaller than equivalent images files, such as TIFF, PDF and JPG. DjVu uses complex text/image and compression algorithms, which allow the faithful representation of the compressed images and the editing of the text extracted from the images.
You will need the plugin for most of the texts in DjVu format. The text
entitled "Astronomy" in the right column uses a Java DjVu viewer written by
Bill Riemers. This requires that you have the Java JRE or SDK installed and
is visible to your browser.
Please click on Texts under Lector Longinquus (the Distant Reader) for the Latin and Greek texts.
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