Susan, Too many things to read. I bookmarked this article yesterday along with a lot of other things. Now I have to decide wha to read first. I haven't gone very deeply into xom yet. That will happen as I develop the input methods for eaading and displaying xml and utd files. On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:11:36PM -0600, Susan Jolly wrote: > The ExtendedModifyEvent is described in this article I linked to yesterday: > http://www.eclipse.org/articles/StyledText%201/article1.html > > Among other things an ExtendedModifyEvent tells you the absolute character > position within the text of the start of any change to the text. Does XOM > provide a means to locate a text character via its character position? > > Susan > -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities