Editing the book

I have spent the last week finalizing edits on Remaking Buddhism for Mediæval Nepal and the only thing I am sure of is that there are still mistakes. I have spent so long fiddling over details that the book is in danger of becoming stale. On the way I have learned a few boring technical things.
1. It’s good to have your own style files.
2. I will definitely have to keep working within TeX if I want to use Bembo as a typeface and still achieve good diacritics.
3. XeTeX is a good thing, but it doesn’t magically make diacritics where the font does not already support combining characters. Getting a ḍ in Bembo will always require doing \d{d}.
4. Indexing is an art. Defining commands well ahead of time for your index is a good thing.
5. I wish TeXtures had been released for Cocoa. That will never happen, and it will always be difficult to get full font support in quite the way TeXtures could do it.
6. During the course of the thesis, and then the book, I have seen two excellent pieces of software die: TeXtures and Papyrus. Neither has been replaced by anything as good.