Tony Baechler wrote:
according to what Joshua was saying, the page numbers are not available anywhere in the plain text because they would look ugly.
However, if I decide that for a particular file I want them, I have to go to the master xml document and do my own conversion.
This does not seem simpler to me.
That may not be simple but is still better than what you have now: if the txt file happens to lack the page numbers there is no way you could get them short of redoing the book. In TEI, it may be not quite simple to set up, but you *can* do it. (And you can do lot more.) Im my eyes that's a big advantage. Of course, XML is not and has never claimed to be the solution to all the world's problems. ZML is :-) -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org