don said:

1. It's an example of a way to enforce my recommendation to proofread for italics only.

as it was shown, yes. but that wouldn't have to be the case.

2. The first page exhibits a flaw I found in another ZML text; it only allows the selection of your definition of a whole word; so "*I*'d" can only be displayed as "*I'd*".

there's nothing inherent about that. z.m.l. can italicize just part of a word. and i did indeed do precisely that, several times in this book. the problem in doing that, however, is that it looks like crap. the typography in a browser doesn't handle that very nicely... anyway, back to the world series... -bowerbird