The code is near the end of compileTranslationTable.c It is provisional, sicne I think we need to see just what we want. The function is available from liblouis.h with no arguments and returns a pointer to a character string containing a list of comma-separated paths. it may need debugging. John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com