
Lee>Don't try to force me into the middle of /that/ dispute. "We" [who use small machines] are not forcing you in the middle of any dispute. What we are asking for is the same right that Marcello is asserting for himself, which to have a little playground on the side to demonstrate to the PG community, and to the reader community, *which* approach in practice turns out to be the "right approach" or the "wrong approach" -- instead of Marcello just declaring himself the victor by fiat. Marcello's claim is that everything needs to be completely rewritten in a new, very different, and highly restrictive language. The current reader community of epub/mobi readers are saying "No, HTML works just fine, its just that the people who are currently writing HTML don't understand some of the little nit details that one has to be aware of if you want to successfully target small machines. Let us tweak these little nit details so that the HTML files will actually run successfully on our machines." So what we are asking for is: 1) Let Marcello go off and have his little playpen to rewrite everything he wants into RST. 2) Let the current reader community of epub/mobi readers also have a similar playpen where they can post slightly tweaked versions of the HMTL which will actually run correctly on own machines, and have that HTML compiled into epub and mobi just like it current is. If either approach "blows up" in practice then the answer is simple: turn off the playpen. That Marcello won't allow such a "competition of ideas" speaks volumes about his approach.