Perhaps this is the place to mention something I've long wanted to suggest to many more people. Perhaps there's some way to incorporate the principle I discuss without doing the specifics I mention, so if it starts anything, that's good. Carry over from one artificial intelligence design phaze to another would really do Henter Joyce some good. I admired how richly Omni 1000 derived text cues from pictures, and this was incorporated into later developments of Kurzweil 1000. However, although HenterJoyce acquired Open Book from Arkenstone for distribution, I don't think many of these features, such as decolumnization, were put into JAWS at any point. What's preventing HenterJoyce from thinking outside the boxes? Although Kurzweil can pronounce the word I used, decomnization, JAWS can't, and the customer has to write his own dictionary entry. Kurzweil can pronounce it the way its supposed to be: de column nization. Linux designers could meditate on this dillemma and use design principles the corporate turf battlers may have overlooked. In the long run, I was disappointed that Henter Joyce acquired the license for Open Book rather than Kurzweil. There's no guarantee they would have shown the initiative I'm specifying here even if they had Kurzweil to deconstruct. To post to the list, send a message to: ossrp-control@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send a message to: ossrp-control-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and set the subject field of the message to "unsubscribe" (without the quotes