Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net writes:
I think there would be even more than that to merging the two cultures. They take the idea of the plain vanilla text to an extreme to the point where their English site does not allow for accented characters, italics, etc.
Up to some degree this was right in the past. Things have changed, there is a European dependence devoted to prepare books with "foreign" characters:
Books with illustration are also possible, as an example search for "Wilhelm Busch" at http://www.gutenberg.org .