> Right now, I'm not feeling motivated to make htmltext a str
> subtype.

That's it...get us all excited, then pull the rug out.  I bet you did the
whole thing on purpose.

:)

Seriously, though, the non-stringness of htmltext is, for me at least, the
biggest problem with the entire Quixote system.  It's a trap that is easy
to fall into, and it can lurk and blow up on you at inopportune times far
in the future.  Almost every piece of unwanted "Quixote traceback" mail in
my mailbox in recent times has been a "but I wanted a string" crash.

If I can carve out some time, I may try to take a crack at this myself.
That's a big "if", it's been hard to find the time to breathe lately.

jon