[l2h] Adjusting itemize row spacing

[William T. Martin]

I would like to adjust the spacing between items in the itemize
environment. I read on a latex list that the way to do this was to
adjust the \itemsep length just after the \begin{itemize} statement: 

\documentclass[10pt,oneside]{article}
\usepackage{html,htmllist,color,makeidx,epsfig}

\begin{document}
 \begin{itemize} \addtolength{\itemsep}{0.5\baselineskip}
  \item Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
  \begin{itemize}
    \item \htmladdnormallink{General information}
       {http://www.gradschool.cornell.edu/grad/fields_1/oper-res.html}
    \item \htmladdnormallink{Degree Requirements}{/~kathy/phd/phdreq.html}
    \item \htmladdnormallink{How to apply for a Ph.D. in Operations
Research }{/
~kathy/phd/phd4.html}
  \end{itemize}
\item Master of Engineering (M. Eng.)
\end{itemize}
\end{document}

This works for latex, but makes no difference in latex2html.  I am using: 

E:\LATEX>latex2html -v
This is LaTeX2HTML Version 2002-1 (1.69)
by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds.  

Related to this, I would like to change the the appearance of the itemize
levels to be \Large in the first level and italicized on the second level.
How is this accomplished?

Thank you,

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