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