keith said:
Lee want substantially identical HTML. That is a completely different animal.
i don't know that much about lee's proposal, and i don't intend to do anything to find out. from the little bit of material that you quoted, i got the impression he will provide four files that _he_ will create (i.e., probably garbled), from which he expects you'll generate output that will match a criterion which _he_ makes (i.e., probably one that's chock-full of quirks), and if you "succeed" -- in _his_ estimation -- he will give you the "prize" of a hundred bucks. he wants to give you 4 separate piles of garbage, get one brick of purified gold back from you, and then pay you peanuts. ergo, a wild-goose chase. and all to distract you from the important point: that any of those light-markup systems will work for the purpose of being the p.g. "master format", if you chose one and did the refining grunt-work. and indeed, one of them has already been chosen! but the d.p. workflow and their volunteer mind-set had -- alas -- long ago become as hard as concrete. so even that decision will mean zilch in the long run. oh well. that's the way the cookie crumbles... -bowerbird