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About the last question: there's no problem at all about uploading a book in the public domain here. You can buy public domain books (Charles Dickens is also for sale at Amazon). Sometimes publishers slap a copyright notice on in hopes that no-one will notice. Other times they add introductions, notes etc and, strictly speaking, it is these that are copyrighted. And if the editor has had to do a lot of work on the text then it may be considered a derivative work, with its own copyright.
Now, the other things:
Table of Contents
Yes, I would add a table of contents. Either follow the instructions in HarryT's BD tutorial, or let BD do it automatically.
1. See that all chapter titles are set as titles.
2. Put your cursor below the book title.
3. Click on the insert menu. Select "make toc (all).
4. A toc magically appears.
If any subtitles appear wrongly below the toc, then just copy, cut and paste them into the correct place.
Footnotes can be linked in the way described in HarryT's BD tutorial.
ö
About the ö problem. I think that this may be due to the fact that you don't have Word on your computer. BD needs Word in order to function properly. (You don't actually have to use it yourself, but it needs to be on the computer for BD to access when necessary). It is possible to make books without having word, but one will frequently run into this sort of problem.
To solve the immediate problem you just might give up and substitute 'co-ordinating 'for 'coördinating'.
(If you don't want to use Word at all, then abandon BD and try Calibre.)
Emdashes
Emdashes are dashes the width of the letter m—like this—and occur frequently, especially in novels, to separate ideas. Your source may have represented them as two hyphens--like that.
Now, BD will automatically render all dashes or double hyphens as single hyphens unless you tell it otherwise. The way to make it preserve all dashes at the right length is to download the Book Cleaner files and drop them into BD’s Book cleaner directory. Also, when making a Sony Book, click on the leave all dashes “as it is” option.
If you compare your book with the original source, you will see that it did not use single hyphens for dashes. If you want your book to look perfect then you will either have to remake it, or go through the text and check every dash. This takes ages. (So you may decide to live with hyphens for your first attempt.) If you can face checking each hyphen, it can be changed to an emdash in the insert menu. Choose "insert long dash".
By now, I expect that you wish you had chosen a shorter work to start with. But you are certainly doing very well. Good luck.
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