LAST EDITED ON Apr-14-10 AT 05:51 PM (EDT)
 
>I absolutely loved the piece, and was double-enthralled by the use of
>HTML. Will soft wrapping continue into future productions?

Apart from Forum retreads like this and the Mini-Omnibus files, no. It's a big pain in the ass doing the conversion, particularly for anything that wasn't originally devised as a Forum post (I cheat by grabbing the reprocessed source of a displayed Forum page and prettying it up some, and that's still a hassle), and I'm for damn sure not going to bother with <p></p> tags as part of the creative stream.

Plus, I hate the way HTML displays paragraph formatting. It worked for Correspondence and Road Film because the former is a series of emails and the latter is in script format anyway, but for a long plaintext document like, oh, say Star-Crossed? No first-line tab indent and an extraneous line of whitespace after each graf? Forget about it. Ugly. Hard to read. When was the last time you saw an actual prose book formatted like that?

As to ePub, which I assume is a reader format for some portable device or other, I addressed this a few years ago, and though the underlying technologies have changed (who uses a Palm Pilot any more?), my basic take on the problem hasn't: If your equipment can't display a lousy plaintext document 72 columns wide, you need a better toy. :)

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