Theos-Talk Archives (December 1996 Message tl00227)

New Theosophical Ebook

This is to announce an ebook version of FUNDAMENTALS OF THE
ESOTERIC PHILOSOPHY in Adobe Acrobat 3.0 format. It can be
downloaded using a web browser from:

    ftp://ftp.theosophy.com/pub/theosophy/fund.pdf

The ebook is based upon the first edition, but also includes
spelling updates, standardization of terminology, and reworking of
the diagrams into postscript drawings. A copyright has been added
to protect it against commercial exploitation, and it refers the
reader to buy a paper copy from either Theosophical University
Press or Point Loma Publications, the two publishers offering the
book in print.

The ebook is over 3 MB in size, but it is a large book, with over
600 pages of text. The electronic edition leaves off a table of
contents, and page headers. Footnotes are merged into the text.
Text is related to the pagination of the first edition through the
insertion of page-end markers. A "[37]" is inserted, for instance,
into the etext at the point where page 37 of the print edition
ends. This allows for citations to be made to the print edition,
regardless of how the ebook pagination changes from one release to
the next, or from one format (like PDF) to the next (like HTML).

Any errors noticed in the book should be referred to

    editor@theosophy.com

so that corrections can be made in subsequent releases of the
text.