so, from an easy-to-author z.m.l. master-file, you get out: 1. nice-looking .pdf, customized to your preferences... 2. nice-looking .html, customized to your preferences... 3. nice-looking .epub, customized to your preferences... 4. nice-looking .mobi, customized to your preferences... all by setting your preferences, and then clicking a button, and then drag-n-dropping some files... simpler than pie. or, if you are using a mac or windows or linux machine to do all this, you can also just use that z.m.l. file in the app which handles them -- i.e., the same app which is doing all these conversions -- which _also_ renders the e-book according to your preferences, such that you don't even need all those stupid conversions to other, worse, formats. once your hand-held machines support the z.m.l. format, you won't need those other inferior formats _there_ either. and you'll wonder why you ever did... -bowerbird