keith said:

In a Nut shell. the task is impossible!

well, jim never said why he felt the current examples fall short of what he'd like to see as optimal output... but the task surely isn't "impossible"... i don't particularly like the look of the current examples, but in terms of their structural aspects, they're just fine. the problem is, d.p. recruited its current postprocessors with a lure of "you can make the book look how you like", instead of concentrating on a library that's interoperable. consequently, the books that came out of d.p. are like snowflakes, each of them exhibiting different patterns, with far too much emphasis on cloning the original look. unlike marcello, who is insensitive to the book esthetics, the postprocessors are too-finely attuned to the unique aspects of a book. it'll be hard to find common ground. neither side seems all that interested in common sense. one side controls the files; the other side controls labor. and i cannot see either side giving up their crown jewels. but there's nothing inherently difficult in the task itself, and certainly nothing that would make it "impossible"... the preponderance of pages in the preponderance of books are pages full of paragraphs of justified text, where indents are the most fancy formatting you see. hardly "impossible". -bowerbird