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For a good time, and in a fit of creativity, I created the Alex Catalogue Lite: http://infomotions.com/alex-lite/ There, at that temporary URL, you will find a small collection of electronic texts (47 of them) marked up in TEI and transformed into other formats including two HTML renderings and PDF files. What is sort of interesting, to me at least, is that I was able to use my Alex.pm modules to do output against my relational database to create the TEI/XML files. I then wrote a few other scripts to transform the XML into the other flavors. Lastly, I wrote another couple of scripts to generate the home page, author index, and title index. My Perl modules work quite well. (Whew!) Additionally, I purposely created Alex Catalogue Lite in a form for CD distribution. All the files are saved in one directory. All the links are relative. If you download the tarball, all you will need to use the system is hardware including a CD reader, an operating system that can read long file names, and a mediocre Web browser. No Internet connection is necessary. You could even copy the entire contents of Alex Catalogue Lite to your Web server's file system, and it should work just great. Feel free to download the 20 MB .tar.gz file from my slow machine and tell me how the distribution works for you: http://infomotions.com/alex-lite/alex-lite.tar.gz -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame (574) 631-8604