i'm asking for feedback. so feel free to give it, _especially_ on the
parts that "really don't work when you try to use them." OK, the typical pattern of experience I've had with the programs you have asked us to try in the past is that they appear to install "correctly" and then when I try to get them to work they literally hang forever, or take minutes to update the display. What you ask us to try now works better than that, but see my other email -- there seems to be a disconnect between what you are doing and the rest of us out here on another planet. This compares, for example, to Guiguts, which works more or less like advertised, but when I try it I find that there is enough subtle errors in what it does that it takes more time and effort to try to use it to make books than to not use it to make books. I also use gutcheck etc because the WW insist on it, and find it a huge waste of time, returning literally 100+ false positives per each good catch. Probably faster and more productive to do an additional SR pass. I personally use two tools I have created, performing three jobs: Pgdiff allows me to compare two raw files and allows me using a regex editor to quickly find and fix the differences. It works reliably for big and small differences, including up to whole chapter changes, not just the occasional scanno. Pgdiff allows me to quickly and easily recover linebreaks that have been lost by PG because of their "text70" conventions, such that I can make another pass on the text. (And this obviously is without access to the original text prior to when the "text70" conventions threw away the linebreak info) Smartdehyphen automatically and conservatively fixes hyphens across linebreaks and tightens punctuation. Neither of these tools do a huge part of the job but rather represent "fixes" where I found myself repeatedly needlessly doing the kind of "million-monkey-work" that one finds [needlessly] in P1. Other tools I use "All the Time" for various parts of the job though none works correctly for all of the job include: Notepad Wordpad Notepad++ Winword Adobe Reader ADE Lizard Djvu Vim Abbyy Finereader Mobipocket Creater Calibre Mobigen Kindlegen Visual Studio validator.w3.org Plus all the standard "*nix" cmd line tools. And even just about all these "professional" tools have hung once or twice in the middle of doing some part of the job, and/or corrupted parts of files.