we seem to have lost the mad scientist.

mike mcd, are you still out there?

if so, i have some questions for you...

here's another take on "gods and fighting men":
>   http://z-m-l.com/misc/14465-take6.pdf

this .pdf just has the first page of each chapter,
but it came outta my program, not a text-editor.

as we can see, the p.g. linebreaks make this text
practically unusable, so we'll have to do a rewrap,
especially if you want to have the text _justfied_...
(if not, i can just rearrange the unwieldy lines and
leave the vast majority of p.g. linebreaks in place.)

going on, is this text-size (10-point) good for you?
(again, print out some pages so you know for sure.)

how about the leading?  it's 15-point leading, so
that's generous for 10-point type, and you might
feel it's _too_ big, but i thought i'd show it to you.

on pages 12 and 101, you'll see _blue_ headers...
those are lines that needed to be _shrunk_ a bit,
so they would not spill over into the margin area.
on page 12 it's 15.5-point instead of 16-point,
and on page 101 it's 13-point instead of 14-point.
(and that latter one still intrudes on the margins.)

the program attempts to "copy-fit" all the headers
to the same size, but i'm experimenting here with
allowing slight variations in size on freakish lines.
(rather than letting the freaks dictate that the other
header-lines be smaller to accommodate the freaks.)

so the question is, are these small variations bad?
noticeable?  too much so?  do they bother you much?

-bowerbird