So what I'm going to do is keep developing it in the DCF environment, and then when it's finished, put it through the same HTML conversion process I developed for the Mini-Omnibus collections and the web version of Top Gear: Road Film (With Fighting). As clunky as that is, it beats trying to maintain a narrative flow while engaging in full-dress HTML markup (which is friggin' impossible, at least for me).

If that works (which is not a given), and the result is bearable, it may point the way to a new way of developing content, since - alas - the times have by now left my beloved, universally compatible, no-hassles-for-me plain ASCII presentation far, far behind. I've tried to avoid going HTML for well over a decade at this point - I still hate the way it displays paragraphs - but when the most traffic your board sees in months centers around people trying to convert your output for their toys of choice, well, there's your sign, as my fitness instructor is wont to say. Besides, one of the legs of my stance on ASCII has always been its universality. If it's lost that, it's lost it, and I can deplore that all I want, but deploring it doesn't change it.

Mind you, even if the Weapon of Choice experiment does lead to a new standard, you're still on your own with the back catalog. The hell I'm going back and converting all that lot. I can pretty much guarantee I'm never going to have that much free time. :)

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