karl said:
> Sure, these ASCII files are also useful for special purposes,
> but telling us again and again that's the best solution
> for all books and all times, is highly arguable.
to my mind, the only problem with the ascii files is
the absence of book typography -- bold headings,
justified lines, bottom-balanced pages, pagination!,
properly rendered footnotes, all the looks-nice stuff,
leading to a display that is so boring it becomes tedium.
fortunately, i've found with my z.m.l. that an intelligent
viewer-program can figure out all of that stuff itself,
given a reasonable amount of easily-done "hinting",
and apply it, which removes this "only problem" and
makes the ascii files "the best solution" for most books,
most of the time.
-bowerbird