paul flo said:
>   And yet it is so difficult
>   to have these ASCII files work for readers.

light-markup converts well to any format you want.
i'm in the process of demonstrating that, right now.

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>   to show that more people would rather work in XHTML
>   than ZML, I'd only have to find two XHTML people.

xhtml?  as far as i can read what the wc3 has declared,
xhtml is a dead-end.  even .epub is leaving it behind.

light-markup, on the other hand, has been on a sharp
upward slope for years now...  even with trendy geeks...
heck, _most_especially_ with the trendiest of the geeks.

markdown, in particular, is _exploding_ at the moment.

but, you know, use what _you_ like the best, eh?      :+)

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you know that one of the _output_ formats for markdown
is xhtml, right?  but the point is, nobody wants to _write_
in an xhtml environment.  not any _real_writers_, anyway.
real writers want the-words-and-nothing-but-the-words.

even the main .epub programmers use asciidoc to _write_.

but use whatever you like!  what _do_ you use, by the way?

-bowerbird