Lee> 1. How can I get an automated HTML conversion of a text which has a
hand-crafted HTML version?
Marcello>You can't. Well, help apparently not forthcoming from the PG homefront, check out GutenMark: www.sandroid.org/GutenMark which works out "OK" in my experience. You might want to play around with the command line switches and decide what you like best. Many of the not-handcrafted files on freekindlebooks.org are via GutenMark, which I used simply because it gave me a simple path from .txt to .html -- the files on freekindlebooks being generate at a time prior to when PG was willing to even host generated epub and mobi files. GutenMark has at least one problem in that by default it tries to change straight quotes to curly quotes but fails in non-trivial circumstances.