jim said:
>   I have not heard a reasonable rational why PG REQUIRES me
>   to submit BOTH an HTML AND a PG TXT file if what I as a volunteer
>   really want to submit is just an HTML file.
>   If I were allowed to just submit an HTML file then I could reasonably
>   encode MOST of what I as a transcriber would like to transcribe,
>   and I could avoid the abuse that I currently receive from Bowerbird
>   when I don't put in the extraneous marks and spaces and smiley faces
>   not found in the author's work but which Bowerbird would like to see
>   in the PG TXT in order to support his pet theories about how
>   the input file format and the rendered file format need to be one
>   and the same thing. In turn Bowerbird could use his time and
>   energies in a positive manner transcribing my HTML input format file
>   into any particular flavor of PG TXT output file format that
>   Bowerbird likes and can and will in turn pat himself on the back for,
>   rather than abusing me of efforts that I didn't want to have to do
>   in the first place.

i won't let you bait me into any more of this nonsense, jim.

everyone paying attention -- and probably even most of those
_not_ paying attention -- knows that i refuted your points deftly,
and completely, except for those which i myself have already made.

(but, um, gee, thanks for all your _support_ on those matters, jim;
having you agreeing with them really bolstered up their credibility.)

you come here looking for a master format.  i handed you one.
but because it doesn't look the way you thought it _would_ look,
you don't recognize that it's exactly what you were looking for...

there's a certain bit of humorous irony in all that...

-bowerbird