Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:

lee said:

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Unluckily for us, Bowerbird has not yet released his algorithm for determining whether a block of unstructured text is a paragraph.

oh gee, i'm sorry. i thought i had.

in z.m.l., anything surrounded by two or more blank lines is a paragraph.

In z.m.l., anything surrounded by two or more blank lines is structured text. When you can recognize a paragraph, and distinquish it from a title or a block quotation inside of a paragraph, no matter how many blank lines surround them, then I'll be impressed.