Hi all. If I use translateString() from liblouisxml's python bindings to translate the contents of a very short file, and I also have braillePages set to 'yes', the amount of time it takes for that file to be translated is quite large. And CPU shoots up to nearly 100% for the duration of the translation. Setting braillePages to 'no' makes the issue go away, and I've not seen this issue occur with files with a more "normal" amount of text. As for what is the definition of "very short file" and "long time", a quick bit of data: character count of original: 93 translation time: 0.003 seconds character count of original: 75 translation time: 98.253 seconds The second test case was a copy of the first test case with some words removed. Both test cases were simple documents written in Gedit. And both test cases were translated using the same configuration. While not technically an endless loop (after all, the process eventually does return), this issue sounds similar to "Fixed endless loop when braillePages=yes" listed in the release notes for 2.4.0. So at least in theory have that fix. Any ideas as to what's going on? Lastly, I am aware that all the cool kids are now using liblouisutdml. And one day I hope to be a cool kid. <smiles> At the moment, however, I have some existing software which depends upon liblouisxml and is suffering from this bug. Thus any help you could provide would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance! --joanie For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com