jim said:

I have not heard a reasonable rational why PG REQUIRES me to submit BOTH an HTML AND a PG TXT file if what I as a volunteer really want to submit is just an HTML file. If I were allowed to just submit an HTML file then I could reasonably encode MOST of what I as a transcriber would like to transcribe, and I could avoid the abuse that I currently receive from Bowerbird when I don't put in the extraneous marks and spaces and smiley faces not found in the author's work but which Bowerbird would like to see in the PG TXT in order to support his pet theories about how the input file format and the rendered file format need to be one and the same thing. In turn Bowerbird could use his time and energies in a positive manner transcribing my HTML input format file into any particular flavor of PG TXT output file format that Bowerbird likes and can and will in turn pat himself on the back for, rather than abusing me of efforts that I didn't want to have to do in the first place.

i won't let you bait me into any more of this nonsense, jim. everyone paying attention -- and probably even most of those _not_ paying attention -- knows that i refuted your points deftly, and completely, except for those which i myself have already made. (but, um, gee, thanks for all your _support_ on those matters, jim; having you agreeing with them really bolstered up their credibility.) you come here looking for a master format. i handed you one. but because it doesn't look the way you thought it _would_ look, you don't recognize that it's exactly what you were looking for... there's a certain bit of humorous irony in all that... -bowerbird