Dear Mrs. Maxim, I used a number of semi-colons with no spaces between them and the next word. I remember all the stuff you taught me—really—but in this case it was because I was typing too fast and my thumbs are weak. (There is a technical name for this in German.) Your former student, Robert Paul (I sat in front of Priscilla Vanderveer.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html