ok, in discussing one of the books on rfrank's roundless test-site, i remarked that the scans were badly done, uncharacteristic of roger. much more in keeping with his typical level of quality are the scans from a new book on the site, a biography about nathan hale, so i've scraped and remounted those scans on my site, and will do the book.

http://z-m-l.com/go/nhale/nhalep123.html http://z-m-l.com/go/nhale/nhale.zml

as i've been doing lately, the last page of the book shows the changes that i made to the file to clean it up, to show people how simple it is... this book has a lot of correspondence in it (so it has salutations and signatures and stuff like that), and i haven't done such books before, so i'm gonna have to figure out how to handle all of that in z.m.l., which means looking at a bunch of p.g. e-texts to see how people have represented them in the .txt versions up to this point in time... meanwhile, i'm just dealing with them in a presentational manner, either left-justifying or centering or right-justifying, as appropriate. it should be easy to see how i've indicated that by viewing the pages. (i simply used underbars and equal-signs to indicate each of them.) the book still needs some work. but even now, it's a demonstration of how quickly one person can make a book available to the public... -bowerbird