jim said:
>   What I am not clear about is why BB insists
>   that what one starts from must be
>   an "an impoverished text-file"

BB>first, if someone is "not clear about" something
>i've said -- or not said, as the case might be --
>the best thing to do is ask me for my reasoning.

Not possible to ask a question of someone who refuses to be part of a conversation.

BB>the problem is, jim's assertion is simply incorrect.
>meaning, of course, his extension that i "insist" it
>is doubly incorrect, compounding things further.

If you go back and read what BB wrote, you will see that in fact he was assuming that everybody has to start from a txt file, otherwise his query about “how are volunteers suppose to do it from a text file” doesn’t make sense, because then the simple answer becomes “volunteers don’t do it from a text file.”