Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
but the loss of formatting doesn't matter, because after you have made a few global changes (which, among other things, restore the blank lines between paragraphs that get stripped), you can put the text back into my viewer-program, and it will redo the nice formatting, just like it did it in the first place...
It's no round-tripping if you have to hand-tweak the files. Before I'd have to re-apply by hand all things your program fumbled along the way, I'd "round-trip" the pdf thru images and Abbyy Finereader. (That works for *any* pdf.) What use is this feature anyway, if you just `round-trip' pdfs produced by your program? Then why not keep the zml file around? If you could convert *all* pdf files into zml, that would be something. Or did you just learn a new buzz-word: "round-trip", and are milking it for what its worth? -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org