
Like many I'm sure (all right, I'm not really sure), I like ebooks/etexts but do not like to read them on a computer screen. This is largely, no doubt, because I work with a computer all day anyway--a book should be a place to get away from it all for a little. The natural thing to do is to print the text out and read it. The question then is: how do we typeset it? The first thing I looked at was GutenMark. I was a little disappointed when I tried it on _Gods and Fighting Men_ by Lady Augusta Gregory. The LaTeX it generated was invalid. Then I took the HTML version of said book and ran it through HTML2PS. The results were serviceable, but looked like, well, a printed web page. a2ps worked in the most rudimentary sense. The font was still a fixed width font, the paragraphs were not reformatted, so there was a lot of unused space on the right hand side of the page. One of the last two would, of course, do in a pinch, but I was wondering whether anyone else here had any ideas/recipes on how to automatically or mostly-automatically typeset a PG etext for printing. -- Michael McDermott www.mad-computer-scientist.com