robert said:

English-language novels tend to go quickly. If they qualify for the "easy" queue, they spend little time queuing, and often complete proofreading within a few days.

when i said "fly through d.p. in a few hours" i meant literally, not figuratively. (well, i guess the "fly" part was figurative, :+) but the "few hours" part was quite literal, especially since first-time producers get to go to the head of the queue. go ahead, time it.) -bowerbird p.s. a text that is already this clean would most definitely be put into the "easy" queue. moreover, re-doing existing e-texts might be a very good test of the formatting rounds that are now being contemplated for the d.p. future. (of course, those are a complete waste of time, in my humble opinion, but they _are_ the plan...) p.p.s. robert, didn't you make a d.p. forum post that also listed a bunch of plain-text formats recently? or was that dazb? or someone else?