As stated before, the ASCII converter basically only strips macronames in its 
input. This converter is so rudimentary, that the tt(groff) converters are a  
better path to generate plain ASCII output. As it is, the ASCII converter is 
now only usable as a last resort, when neither LaTeX, nor a HTML browser, nor 
tt(groff) is available.

The layout of the input file is very important in the ASCII converter, since 
the output is basically the same as the input. The only exception to this rule 
are multiple empty lines, which are eaten up by a post-processor 
tt(yodl2txt-post) and replaced by one empty line each.

For example, you should format your sections in the following way to make sure 
that the titles start at the leftmost column:

verb(\
chapter(Some chapter)

Text of the chapter. Text of the
chapter. Text of the chapter. Text 
of the chapter. Text of the chapter.
Text of the chapter. 

sect(A section within the chapter)

Text of the section. Text of the 
section. Text of the section. Text of 
the section. Text of the section.

sect(A second section)

More text.)

This ensures that the chapter and section titles appear `left-flushed'. 
Optionally you might want to try the following layout: 

verb(\
chapter(Some chapter)

    Text of the chapter. Text of the
    chapter. Text of the chapter. Text
    of the chapter. Text of the 
    chapter. Text of the chapter.

    sect(A section within the chapter)

        Text of the section. Text of
	the section. Text of the section.

    sect(A second section)
    
        More text.)

Similarly, you should choose a `good-looking' way to format your lists, as in: 

verb(\
Text before an itemized list.

itemize(

    it() Some item. Some item. Some
    item. Some item. Some item.

    it() Another item. Another item.
    Another item. Another item. Another 
    item. 
    
)

Text following the list.)

This makes sure that (a) the itemized list is `indented' relative to the other 
text, and (b) that the lines within one item of the list are indented to the 
same level.

Don't blame Yodl as a package for the ugliness of the ASCII converter. Rather, 
blame me: I wrote the ASCII converter when I was too lazy to dig into the 
groff format. Now that there's a tt(man) and a tt(ms) output format, you're 
probably better off using that.
