The files are in DOC format, the standard format for long text documents on Palm computers. See below for DOC browsers. Your Palm manual should explain how to upload .pdb files onto your palmtop.
Each libretto takes up between 30 and 60 kb of space; all of them put together occupy 500 kb at present. This is 25% of the capacity of a Palm III.
| The Pirates of Penzance | H.M.S. Pinafore | Patience |
| The Sorcerer | The Mikado | Ruddigore |
| Iolanthe | Princess Ida | Trial By Jury |
| The Yeomen of the Guard | The Gondoliers | The Grand Duke (NEW!) (For TealDoc only) |
All of the above files, packaged in a ZIP archive.
Note that The Grand Duke file is designed to be read using the TealDOC reader, and may not look right when viewed using other readers.
I've kind of run out of steam on this project; if you really want me to convert Utopia, Limited or Thespis anytime soon, e-mail me. Or better yet, you could do the conversion yourself, and send me the edited textfile. You can e-mail me for a style guide and useful software tools. Comments on readability, typos, and accidental deletions are also welcome.
| G&S Libretti: | The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive |
| DOCbook readers: | TealDOC, Iambic Reader, AportisDOC, or SmartDoc, |
| General Palm Software: | PalmGear |
| text-to-DOC converter: | Paul J. Lucas's txt2pdbdoc |
I was a stupid nurs'rymaid, on breakers always steering,
And I did not catch the word aright, through being hard of hearing;
Mistaking my instructions, which within my brain did gyrate,
I took and bound this promising boy apprentice to a pirate.
A sad mistake it was to make and doom him to a vile lot.
I bound him to a pirate -- you! -- instead of to a pilot.
--W. S. Gilbert, "The Pirates of Penzance"
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