looks like we lost our mad scientist... or perhaps he's off deep into programming mode, creating wondrous new tools for project gutenberg. at any rate, for anyone out there who's interested, here is my latest .pdf of "gods and fighting men":

http://z-m-l.com/misc/14465-take6.pdf

feedback, public or private, would be appreciated... this version retains p.g. linebreaks, for the most part. (i did some rewrapping, to remove egregious orphans.) the use of 10.5-point type made even the longest lines manageable, given the 4.5-inch measure that i used... that's obtained by .5-inch margins on a 5.5-inch page. (if you were printing this at lulu.com, you could specify a 6*9-inch page, which would allow a bigger fontsize.) however, as you'll see, the lines are extremely ragged, with many short lines, since they were wrapped by the character-count, not the length of a proportional font. (furthermore, there was some real weirdness on this, in that many lines seemed to have been counted short; in particular, it was as if the algorithm was _trying_ to create very short lines as the last line of the paragraph. i don't recall having seen this before; it was _strange_.) anyway, because many of the lines were counted short, using full justification on this text would be a disaster. but otherwise, this is a _respectable_ job of typesetting. i'm gonna rewrap this text, using a bigger fontsize, and i'll mount that .pdf later this week. enjoy this one now... -bowerbird