marcello said:
Line justification
or not, user option.
Keep hard linebreaks
or not, user option.
Paper margins
calling them "paper" margins is a deficiency in thinking, but yes, margins will usually be bigger when you go to paper than if you're creating a .pdf intended for on-screen reading.
Em-dashes
ascii double-dash, or typographic em-dash.
Quotes
straight or curly.
Hyphenation
sorry, no option here. hyphenation has bad side-effects, and it's unnecessary.
Footnotes
hyperlink displayed in the "workspace" area.
Pictures
displayed on-the-screen as large as possible using empty space on that "page"; this picture being a hyperlink that causes the picture to be presented in the "workspace". the "gallery" allows the user to browse all of the pictures in the currently-active folder. (this will usually be the set of pictures for the book, but can also include pictures you have decided to "inject" in the book. more on that capability later...)
Pron filter
"pron" won't get through many "filters" anymore...
Verse
indented text can be displayed in a color of the user's choice, as can headers, emphasized text, search-strings, and the body-text. background color is configurable too.
Fonts
any font on the user's machine.
Missing fonts
there is no such thing.
all-lowercase display
if that's what the user wants, yep. *** you missed a whole bunch more options. people can learn about those options by checking out this post on my blah-blah blog:
or, of course, they can, you know, actually _download_ the program and run it, at least if they're on a windows machine or a mac... just sign up for the beta-test listserve:
zml_talk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
not all of the options are currently in the app, but they'll get a good feel for the philosophy... -bowerbird