> these authors tend to want to have that "formatting" preserved almost exactly...missing an important point of web documents. :-) Yes, I agree :). That's why

> these authors tend to want to have that "formatting" preserved almost exactly...missing an important point of web documents. :-) Yes, I agree :). That's why I said "ironically": they want to preserve their formatting, even though it's terrible, and it looks like they didn't want to think about how to format it anyway.