I believe Bert and Christian Waldvogel have raised this issue before but I can't find a solution! British Braille requires an italic end sign 46-3 AFTER more than three words, A double 46 sign before a string of three words or more i.e. 46-46 and a single italic sign 46 before less than three words, but it seems liblouis can not achieve this. This is the closest I can get! # Italic #italsign 46 # if enabled less than 3 correct, more than 3 incorrect (last word has this sign before!) firstwordital 46-46 # if enabled more than 3 correct, less than 3 incorrect (is treated the same as more than three!) lastworditalafter 46-3 lenitalphrase 4 firstletterital 46-2 lastletterital 46-3 I believe as others seem to have done, that italsign and lastworditalbefore need to be seperate. How can this be achieved? What is the time frame? Thanks Paul