keith said:
You first proposed using zml!
well, i suggested that z.m.l. was the best format to use, because it was molded from the existing pg-text format. and it would still be the best one to use, for that reason. many p.g. text-files are _already_ z.m.l. files in disguise. but i often said that other light-markup systems would be almost as good. the one i would usually recommend was markdown, because it's now supported quite widely. but i also suggested ascii-doc, and restructured-text... ascii-doc is used lots of places, and restructured-text has been the format that python uses for documentation. and there is also wiki-formatting, like wikipedia uses, which means that lots of people are familiar with that. what you will see if you look at these systems closely is that many of them are not as "light" as they could be... they essentially require you to learn a _new_ markup... the next thing you will notice is that they are not geared specifically to the special and unique needs of e-books... which means you have to formulate some workarounds... it was with those two observations in mind, therefore, that i developed the approach that i used with z.m.l., which is yet another reason why it'd be the best choice. but, you know, p.g. will do what marcello wants it to, as he's in the power position where he can block stuff. and since marcello wants to use r.s.t., p.g. will use r.s.t.
I proposed using LaTeX or similar syntax!
latex is most definitely _not_ light-markup. sorry, keith. -bowerbird