I had the same problem with the Milton and Shakespeare texts. Even the Oxford Text Archive (are they still around?), which tried to mark up their texts, weren't really that good. So, I ended up rolling my own -- ah, the joys of transcribing _Richard III_, 1597 quarto ed... it did teach me SGML, though. Anyhoo... the texts are handy enough for light reading, but aren't really appropriate at all for scholarly work. I'd rather support etexts that were flexible and open enough for both uses.
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I had the same problem with the Milton and Shakespeare texts. Even the Oxford Text Archive (are they still around?), which tried to mark up their texts, weren't really that good. So, I ended up rolling my own -- ah, the joys of transcribing _Richard III_, 1597 quarto ed... it did teach me SGML, though. Anyhoo... the texts are handy enough for light reading, but aren't really appropriate at all for scholarly work. I'd rather support etexts that were flexible and open enough for both uses.