welcome!
this is a document intended to demonstrate the range of features common throughout the e-texts in the project gutenberg library, and indeed to the majority of printed books.
project gutenberg is a volunteer effort for digitizing the text of public-domain books, for viewing and distribution in cyberspace.
it was begun by michael hart back in 1971, with the goal of creating 10,000 e-texts, a milestone achieved in 2003, thanks to a big boost from distributed proofreaders, which allows people to proofread online -- thousands of them doing a page at a time, volunteering bits and pieces of their time.
if you want to support the p.g. library with software, a markup system, or so on, you should be able to handle its features, and you can use this file as a "test-suite" to verify that your system is fully capable.
this document should be self-explanatory. tabs have been substituted with "~tab~", so that they will become visible to you, so they could be changed back for your testing. other than that, no changes should be needed.
this is the test of a link in the middle of a normal paragraph, to http://pgdp.net, to see if it works correctly...
if you find inconsistencies in this test-suite, do please let me know immediately. thank you.