Jeroen, I can understand your point with regard to more complex or academic books. Then it would be back to square one, i.e. we need a master format that is simple enough for producers to learn and easy enough for whitewashers to handle plus new and reliable tools for these purposes. I am no programmer, but as far as I can understand, this is simple in principle but almost impossible in practice. Personally, I'd have nothing against learning new tricks provided I could be sure of the new system's longevity :-) Tapio Jeroen wrote:
For the types of books I handle, plain text is often not sufficient. I have a lot of tables, lists, poetry, and so on, that will require a higher level of mark-up to be manageable. Preparing those books in a plain text only version is often the biggest burden.
The generated HTML is certainly no option for me.