The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
Chapter 4
THE ELECTION
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. ---- Byron
On hearing of Middleton's visit, Mr. Wentworth began his preparations. Meeting with Thomas Lake and Riley at the back of the tap-room of The Bull--where the landlord saw to it that they remained undisturbed--he laid out their plan of campaign.
"That d---l Middleton shall not have the seat," he raved, "not for Lord H----; no, nor for a hundred Lords! We shall see to it that every man's hand is turned against him when he arrives."
Lake unfolded a paper from his vest-pocket and smoothed it on the table. "Here are the expenses we should undertake." Doran 13l. 10s. Titwell 8l. 7s. 6d. St. Charles 25l.
V.122. Sample 2: Typical formatting issues of non-fiction
While non-fiction is not in principle any more difficult to format than fiction, many non-fiction books have lots of features like illustrations, tables, section sub-headings and footnotes, that require some extra work on the part of the producer. If the illustrations are essential, you should consider adding a HTML format file to allow you to present them.
See the page image nonfic.tif. This presents many formatting changes: the centered title will go to the left; the italicized chapter contents will become regular text, and the em-dashes will become "--"; the degree symbol needs to be replaced with ASCII "deg.", and of course we need to render the table readably. After all that, we have to deal with the footnote.
Here is a reasonable rendering of this page: