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First up, I don't know much about epub format, but I'm trying to learn.

Is there a way to generate a reflowable epub document with Mellel?

The fixed layout is superior for control of things like tables, but for a text only presentation, reflowable text has some appeal.

Is that an option?

Yes, it is an option. In fact, it is the only option at the moment. The epub export only supports refloable ePUB.

Ok, that's actually better for my purposes, anyway.

I notice that each line in the output I'm getting is bracketed in a "p" tag, and that's why I thought it wasn't reflowable.

The default novel template may help, too. I'll experiment further.

Stop the presses, I think I know what must have happened. I used some sample text from Project Gutenberg to test epub export, and I'm morally certain I imported newlines at the end of every line in the text.

I'm not where I can test right now, but thought I'd post this in case anyone thought the fault was Mellel's. I'm pretty sure I just proved the old axiom, garbage in, garbage out.

Many thanks for your reply, Eyal.

Mellel is an awesome tool. It's a lightsaber, not as clumsy and random as Microsoft Word.

Mellel is an elegant weapon for more civilized ages, and I'm very happy with it.

That was it. Once I stripped out the extra newlines, all was well in the exported epub.

Redemption in one Python statement, assuming =-= didn't appear in the text of Masque of the Red Death:

open('masque1.txt', 'wt').write(open('masque.txt', 'rt').read().replace('\n\n', '=-=').replace('\n', ' ').replace('=-=', '\n'))

Now, if only my prose was less confused than my code. Sigh.