Publishable or Published?

[Bowerbird at aol.com]

lou said:
>   maybe implying that Markdown's kinda small-bore is, 
>   umm, how you say in Anglish, sorta ...

small-bore?

i don't know what that means, but it sounds like it could be
some sort of insult.  i don't appreciate your putting an insult
in my mouth, and then taking offense at it, not in the slightest.


>   You know, off-topic.  Maybe.  Could be?  Can I say that?  

sure you can.  and -- as i said myself -- if gruber wants to
declare what i'm saying as "off-topic", that's fine with me.


>   "Web" writers, writing for "web" users, cranking out XHTML 
>   mostly for "web" browsers, maybe other user-agents that 
>   grok XHTML?  Is that allowed?  I hear it's catching on.

yep, i hear the same thing.  yet, as you yourself demonstrate,
sometimes there's a need for an offline product too, like .pdf.

but hey, while i've got the attention of some "web" writers
writing for "web" users -- is it ok if i call 'em "readers"? --
perhaps you can answer me a question or three.  when i copy
text out of some browsers, the text-styling and formatting
is often lost entirely.  what's up with that?  even in the best
of cases, i find that subtle formatting is lost, most notably
the indents on block-quotes, and the indents on paragraphs.
further, the "space above" paragraphs isn't translated into
any blank lines, so all of the paragraphs just run together.

is there any workaround to this?  is there any browser that
does a good job of retaining all text-styling and formatting?

-bowerbird