lee said:
If you find widows and orphans disconcerting (and by this I mean typographical widows and orphans, not those caused by mis-guided foreign policy)
good point.
you will probably not be happy with the Perathoner XSLT to PDF version of Alice in Wonderland, and if you don't like monospaced, serifed fonts, you will probably not be happy with the BowerBird ZML to PDF version.
but you _will_ be happy with bowerbird's viewer-app, which will let you create the kind of .pdf that you want.
When it comes to a master file format, what should be selected is the one which (1) permits end-users to postpone rendering decisions (what many people refer to as 'tyopgraphy')
did you make that typo on "typography" on purpose?
to the last possible moment, which (2) allows the end user to have the maximum amount of input as to the which rendering decisions are made, and which (3) permits the end user to use the widest range of tools possible. ZML certainly does not satisfy these criteria, and PDF is even worse.
z.m.l. certainly _will_ satisfy those 3 criteria -- as well as (2.1), which qualifies (2) that input of the rendering preferences be as easy as possible. stick around and pay attention, lee, if you want to see... -bowerbird