mike said:
>   Leslie,

leslie is my girlfriend, not me.

sometimes she checks her e-mail when i'm away from the machine,
so when i come back i end up sending a message from her account.

oh, but you probably got her name from the "author" box of the .pdf,
now that i think about it.  that was filled in by the text-editor i used...
if you check out the later .pdfs, you should find that that metadata is
supplied correctly by my authoring-tool.  (unless i forgot to specify it.)


>   The leading is perfect.

oops...  i took it up considerably in the newer version i just posted...

it has 10.5-point type, with 12-point leading; and still runs 400 pages.
and bigger leading means fewer lines per page, and thus more pages.
which might or might not be a big deal to you.  all of these variables
make it complicated to know how to create a .pdf for somebody else.

which is why a cyberlibrary needs to put .pdf/hard-copy output creation
ability into the hands of its end-users, so they can _customize_ it fully...


>   if I had an ebook reader I probably
>   would not be bothering with any of this.

that's why i make many of the decisions according to a smart default.


>   I also conducted some more experiments with CSS stylesheets for on
>   the html2ps side of things (using txt2html so that the chain looked like:
>   txt2html -> html2ps -> ps file -> printer/screen).

i'd love to see a .pdf representing your output from that...

-bowerbird