josh, i see a few of your .tei projects were reposted. i looked at your earlier .pdf versions, to evaluate them, but it was very hard to keep at the task for very long. first, they are much _improved_ over earlier attempts, so whoever is refining the xslt -- marcello? you? both? -- deserves some warm encouragement for that. keep it up! in their current state, the .pdf's kind of remind me of a young pre-teen girl. her face might well _be_ pretty, but it's difficult for us to tell, because we can't look at it for long enough to decide, since it's covered with pimples... the "pimples", in your .pdf files, are widows and orphans. to the typographically knowledgeable, they're eyesores. and since they appear so frequently within your .pdf's -- practically every other page-spread -- it's distracting, distracting enough that it's impossible to see much else... fortunately, i think there is probably some easy setting that you can make to eliminate all the windows/orphans. indeed, you might even have made that change already! have you? if so, i'll look at the .pdf's that were reposted, and we can move on to some less-obvious points... -bowerbird