It's true - I don't have terribly grand aspirations for now (and I have done a good deal of amateur programming in a variety of languages, so a certain amount of technical overhead probably would be OK.) What I'm thinking about at the moment is just: 1. Some basic text formatting including superscripts for footnotes and italics. 2. Line numbers on the side every five lines for poems. 3. Glosses on difficult words - either as footnotes on the side, or as mouseover popups (with overlib, I suppose), or at the bottom of each page. 4. Longer explanatory notes. I think the longer notes need to be at the bottoms of the pages when they're printed, and it might be nice to have the dictionary glosses there too. (There's really not that much space on the side of the page for them...) And I'd like to do it in some way that's as standard as possible, as fast as possible, as simple for students to access as possible, and that makes it as easy as possible for other people who might want to do more to build on what I've done rather than starting over from scratch. (Eventually I assume people will want to be formatting this stuff for all sorts of digital reading platforms and all sorts of page sizes with cheap automated binding at home or at Kinkos or in college printshops.) The problems about getting it to print as decently formatted pages with footnotes at the bottom on a variety of printers are one big reason I'd rather not do it in straight HTML. The problems about people being able to add to it (and file size issues) are reasons I'd rather not do it with PDFs. But I've got now several leads for other tools and tactics to take a look at from your discussion. (As well as some ideas I hadn't thought of about why Gutenberg isn't already doing it...) I'll keep you posted if I get anything done. Thanks, Thad