ho hum, and yet another day goes by where jim fails to answer any of the hard questions, or provide any material for our competition... oh well, maybe we'll have better luck tomorrow. at any rate, here's my .pdf for our exercise:
this is the "quick-and-dirty" version, which authors will use on an every-day basis to put out a clean copy of their current work... it's still pretty complete, with user-specified font, fontsize, margins, colors, run-heads, footers, metadata, linked table-of-contents, all of the usual rot that i usually mention... but a few of the spacing issues are wonky... plus it's lacking some of the polish niceties, such as widow/orphan control. (and crikey, hadn't even brought that up till now, had i?) another thing that i hadn't mentioned before is the ability to control chapter-end orphans. those are the worst kind, to have one or two or three lines sitting _all_alone_ on a page at the end of a chapter. don't wanna have that! there were 3 such cases, fixed, in this version. if anyone has any feedback, i'd love to hear it. anyway, jim, hope to hear from you tomorrow. i'd like to get your ok on the current .html file, so i can regenerate the .mobi and .epub files... don't keep me waiting, or i'll track you down... -bowerbird