There are a few reasons why I can't really get into a detailed response to this right now, but I just wanted to note that I'm not against the concept in principle, and if you and others here want to keep working on it, you go right ahead. My take is "I ain't doin' that," not "don't be doin' that." :)

Also, a couple of quick notes:

- Feel free to cadge the stylesheet I've been using off the source of one of the more recent files if you want; there are a few variations of it as I've adapted it to the needs of different pieces, but the core of it is the same in all of them and you probably know a lot more about that kind of thing than I do, so you should be able to figure out what I was trying to do with it pretty easily. If you want, I can share some internal notes I've thrown together for the rest of the crew in re working with said stylesheet. (In practice, I do most of it by hand or with search-and-replaces within TextPad; the latter, for instance, is how I do the <p></p> tags on the bulk of the text, after initially writing it as plain text with tabbed indents.)

- Apart from a couple of early experiments and one case where I was recasting a bunch of the story anyway, I haven't attempted and don't plan to attempt my own back catalog conversion; too much work when I could (theoretically) be coming up with new material. In particular, manually sorting out all the hyphenated emphases in the old files (why, oh why, did I decide to do that that way?) is way too much of a faff for me to want to bother with it. So no worries about overlap or anything.

- I never figured out a way to do the two-column credits with lyrics thing in non-fixed text either, which is more or less why I stopped doing that.

Good luck & may the gods have mercy on your soul. :)

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