...the electronic edition—like its traditional counterpart—has also the capacity to create for the reader a textual space from within which one feels the representational power of the text, not as an assemblage of data but as a meaningful, coherent universe. The ideological power of the text depends on this space, not just on its projection of textual meaning, but also on the means used—words, spelling, layout, and the cultural connotations of these things—to achieve that project. It is in this context, therefore, that we can register the real effects of editorial encoding on issues like gender. ********