Different angle (not connected to the above)
In terms of editing I think we should encourage people to use a semantic markup language (such as docbook) as a source format for all the reasons that Peter Hargreaves pointed out since all longer living documents (and their authors will) will, in the long run, benefit from such an approach.
I don't think Forrest should encourage its users to use any particular source format. We can't begin to understand everyones use cases. However, if you mean that, in general, we encourage users to find and use an appropriate source format for their use case then I would agree.
Of course, we need to support all those formats as input plugins. This will be much easier when we have an internal XHTML format.
Ross
