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:
>   http://journals.aol.com/bowerbird/bowerbirdseyeview

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