ok, it looks like the diacritic problem was an encoding glitch on my end so i apologize for that, and take it back. but the missing italics still loom large. i might also throw in a few other notes. first off, there's no table of contents in these files, either the .html or the .txt... i consider that to be plain unacceptable. it's easy enough to make, and it's useful. besides, it orients the reader to the book. i even like backlinks from chapter heads to the table of contents, for quick navigation, and previous/next chapter links are nice too. and, since there has been some discussion about title-pages, i think the title-page in the .html version is done poorly, because it's too widely spaced, which means that it needs about two screens on my monitor. (and i have a 23-inch cinema-screen here.) the whole thing needs much tighter leading. it certainly doesn't feel like a "real" title-page. oh yeah, and the .epub version of the book? no side margins at all... it looks freakish... which means that if you don't like that look, you're gonna need a reader-program which "allows" you to adjust the margins yourself. just so you know... -bowerbird