carlo said:

This shows once more that presentational markup with blank lines only is insufficient to capture all the informations.

um, do you mind if we let a person who has actually _developed_ a zen markup language that makes use of blank lines answer this question, please? because i certainly _have_ an answer... but let's tackle first things first, ok? wally, you should receive some _prize_ -- and i will give you one, i will indeed -- for doing the work that led you to ask this question, so thank you sir! :+) -bowerbird