e-text #10011 is a delightful little recipe-book,
dating from 1908, with "365 foreign dishes" in it,
one "for every day in the year".  in keeping with this,
entries are ordered from january 1 to december 31.

the e-text was very well-done (a little cooking pun).

close analysis in the process of z.m.l. transformation
revealed just one tiny glitch -- an extra empty-line --
which was located rather easily, as can be seen here:
>   http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/bowerbird/etext10011/10011glitch.jpg

you can compare the original p.g. file with the z.m.l. version,
side-by-side, by opening up these url's in separate windows:
>   http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/bowerbird/etext10011/10011.txt
>   http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/bowerbird/etext10011/10011.zml

to sum up, the changes involved reworking all the headers a little bit,
and introducing a "contents" menu for the dishes under each month...

then i generated a .pdf of it:
>   http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/bowerbird/etext10011/10011.pdf

as you will notice, this .pdf presents each of the dishes on its own page.
this gives a very clean look, and will eventually provide great navigation.
(my work-flow does not yet provide auto-hotlinking in the .pdf version.)

indeed, in cases like this, the .pdf makes a _better_ e-book than .html,
and you can judge it for yourself by viewing the p.g. html-book, here:
>   http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10011/10011-h/10011-h.htm

of course, you'd want to generate another .pdf if you were printing it,
so as to use fewer pages.  but this format is great for on-screen use;
the ability to page from one recipe to the next, with each presented in
a consistent position, is far less trying than scrolling through them...

this is a common scenario, actually, with another example of it being
the reading of a listserve digest.  when each message comes up at the
top of the screen, automatically, and you can skip it with a keypress to
go to the next, it's much easier to navigate than when you must scroll
and scan the text to try and locate the beginning of the next message.

i will share frequent observations as i go about the task of converting
the p.g. library over to .zml, so i thought i'd start with this simple one.
comments of any type are welcomed, from _just_about_ anyone...      ;+)

-bowerbird

p.s.  if you try the norwegian fish pudding (march 24), let us know!