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