Locians, Loci's white pages will be written using docbook: the 'industry standard' for creating professional documentation. It is especially well-suited to writing books and documentation for computer software and hardware. Organizations including GNOME have adopted docbook as the authoring system for their documentation. O Reilly has recently released 'Docbook: The definitive guide'. I bought my copy yesterday and it is well worth the cdn $53.95 that i paid. Docbook is essentially an SGML DTD (although an unofficial XML based version is available). It is parsed by jade, Tex, etc to create rtf,html,LaTeX, postscript, pdf, and so on, all from the same source. The book itself was written using docbook, and you can get the SGML source from http://www.docbook.org and render it using docbook! Those of you who might not have the time or inclination to install docbook just so you can render the docbook book will be relieved to find that the kind folks at o reilly have also posted html-ized versions of the docbook book as well. It's my impression that David Lapointe and I will probably make the heaviest use of docbook to document Loci, but it is important to have Loci's 'subject expert' developers contribute Loci documentation as well. BTW, the XML version of Docbook probably won't be industry strength until version 5.0 (current version is 3.1), so Loci's documentation currently will be written in SGML. Fortunately, it is a relatively easy task to convert docbook SGML to XML, so this is not a big deal. Happy authoring! --gary =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Gary Van Domselaar gvd at redpoll.pharmacy.ualberta.ca Faculty of Pharmacy Phone: (780) 492-4493 University of Alberta FAX: (780) 492-5305 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://redpoll.pharmacy.ualberta.ca/~gvd