I will have to think about some of these things you have pointed out. Some of the combinations of tags don't occur in Bookshare files. The italic sign on during is a simple bug. The case of </sup> followed by <strong> can be handled with a change in dtbook.sem Find the line for sup and at the end add " \s" without the quites. The documentation for liblouisutdml explains what this is. 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