i realized i forgot one important point... about a shortcoming in the p.g. e-texts... and the fact that i could forget this one makes me fully realize how utterly and completely i've given up on those files... the p.g. e-texts do not give information on which picture goes in which location. that is, they indicate the _presence_ of a graphic at a location, but they don't tell the filename of the graphic located there. and in fact, some of the books don't even indicate that a picture was even present... i "won" the battle over marking italics, but couldn't win this one on graphic filenames. the whitewashers -- including newby -- insisted that the text-files be neutered in regard to this important information. since that position makes no sense at all, it was obvious it was an act of sabotage. they also refused to do anything to mark _significant_ mid-paragraph linebreaks, which would have eased the removal job that greg johnson was just discussing... but the picture-filenames was a fatal blow. that's when i gave up on project gutenberg. ineptitude is one thing. sabotage is another. -bowerbird